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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Gaston Bachelard

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
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
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
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
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
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
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
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
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
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World

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