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

Gaston Bachelard

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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
There is no original truth, only original error.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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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
Man is an imagining being.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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