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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.

Gaston Bachelard

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We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Dreams Fiction Greatness Ourselves Poetry Situation
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
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
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
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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Gift Mindset Soul Time
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
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Empty Ourselves Page Right Word
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Date Determination Intimacy Knowledge Local Space Urgent
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

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