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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
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
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
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
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World
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
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
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
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water

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