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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.

Gaston Bachelard

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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Knowledge Philosophy Question Science
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Children Event Life World
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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Blank Dreams Empty Ourselves Page Right Word
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
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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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
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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Adult Children Lost See Thinking World
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Date Determination Intimacy Knowledge Local Space Urgent
Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth

The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.

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