We understand nature by resisting it.
GASTON BACHELARDA word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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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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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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