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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Gaston Bachelard

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
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
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
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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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
Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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Childhood Children Cover Imagination Ourselves Possible Solitary
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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
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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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
Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term

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