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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Gaston Bachelard

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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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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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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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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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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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