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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.

Gaston Bachelard

Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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Dedication Dream Green Imagination Meadow River
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves 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
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
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
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
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
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
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 characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
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
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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Destiny Future Image Language Oneself Poetry Speech
A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness

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