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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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