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

Gaston Bachelard

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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
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
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
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
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
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
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
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
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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Happiness Illusion Image Live Nourish Sweet
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World

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