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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.

Gaston Bachelard

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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Man is an imagining being.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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