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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

Gaston Bachelard

The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
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
To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
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
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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Happiness Illusion Image Live Nourish Sweet
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Children Event Life World
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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Corrective Hope Ideas Invention Repeat
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject

The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

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