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Childhood lasts all through life.

Gaston Bachelard

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
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Children Event Life World
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
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
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
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
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
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
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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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
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
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
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

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