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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

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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
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
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
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 the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World

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