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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.

Gaston Bachelard

Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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Childhood Cosmos Happiness Human Man Peace Solitude Son World
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Breathe Conscience Empty Man Myself
Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Growth Space Tree
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Adult Children Lost See Thinking World
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World
A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness

To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.

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