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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

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Beautiful Born Existence Kind Language Special
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
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
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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Distance Edge Imagination Live Past Soul Time Universe
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
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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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
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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Growth Space Tree
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
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
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
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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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress

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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