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

Gaston Bachelard

If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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Knowledge Philosophy Question Science
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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Destiny Future Image Language Oneself Poetry Speech
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
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
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
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
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
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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Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness
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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Addition Book Day Expression Life
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Dreams Fiction Greatness Ourselves Poetry Situation
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
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

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