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Quote by Gaston Bachelard
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again w

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. – Gaston Bachelard

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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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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. – Gaston Bachelard

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One must always maintain ones connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort. – Gaston Bachelard

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Anticipate the day as if it was your birthday and you are turning six again. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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When I grow up I want to be a little boy. – Joseph Heller, Something Happened, 1974

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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. – G.K. Chesterton

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. – Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943

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