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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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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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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Man is an imagining being.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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