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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

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Childhood lasts all through life.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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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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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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