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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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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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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. – Gaston Bachelard

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

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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. – Sigmund Freud

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Whoever wants to understand much must play much. – Gottfried Benn

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