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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.
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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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The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.
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True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
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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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A young or tragic novelty - always sudden - never ceases to illustrate the essential discontinuity of time.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
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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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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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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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If our heart were large enough to love life in all its detail, we would see that every instant is at once a giver and a plunderer.
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The laboratory technician has succeeded in implementing by means of the atomic pile the Einsteinian principle of inertia of energy.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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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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A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
June 27, 1884
Died:
October 16, 1962
(aged 78)
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