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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

Gaston Bachelard

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
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
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
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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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
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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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
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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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
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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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Breathe Conscience Empty Man Myself
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New 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
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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Dedication Dream Green Imagination Meadow River

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