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We understand nature by resisting it.

Gaston Bachelard

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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Dreams Fiction Greatness Ourselves Poetry Situation
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water

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