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Gaston Bachelard Quotes: 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.
         

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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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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