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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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Dreams Expression Love Poet
When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Adult Children Lost See Thinking World
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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Dedication Dream Green Imagination Meadow River
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
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
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
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
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
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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Dreams Life Live Load Ourselves Passion Remain Solitude Time

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