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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

Gaston Bachelard

A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
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
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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Distance Edge Imagination Live Past Soul Time Universe
Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
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
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
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
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
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
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Beautiful Born Existence Kind Language Special
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness

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