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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

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 metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
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
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Date Determination Intimacy Knowledge Local Space Urgent
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
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Children Event Life 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
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

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