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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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Gaston Bachelard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 27
Died: 1962
Died: October 16
G 巴什拉
G. Bachelard
Writer
Repress
Passion
Temptations
Reading
Nurture
Desire
Readers
Living
Temptation
Become
Poet
Certain
Reader
Nobody

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