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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.

Gaston Bachelard

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
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
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
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
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
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
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
What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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Childhood Children Cover Imagination Ourselves Possible Solitary
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
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
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
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching

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