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

Gaston Bachelard

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Breathe Conscience Empty Man Myself
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Empty Ourselves Page Right Word
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection
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
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

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