"So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us."

Family, Childhood, Fire

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"So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us."

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George Orwell, British Author

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"Blessed is the womb that born you."

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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

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"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

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"Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books."

Imagination

"The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows."

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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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"A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language."

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"Man is an imagining being."

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"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."

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"The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know."

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