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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!

Gaston Bachelard

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
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
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
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
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
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
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
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Dreams Expression Love Poet
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
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 words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World

Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!

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