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

Gaston Bachelard

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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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