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There is no original truth, only original error.

Gaston Bachelard

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
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
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
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
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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Addition Book Day Expression Life
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
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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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
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
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner

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