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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.

Gaston Bachelard

Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
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
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
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
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
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
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World
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
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
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
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
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

A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.

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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.

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