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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

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
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 metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Adult Children Lost See Thinking World
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
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
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
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
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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Dreams Life Live Load Ourselves Passion Remain Solitude Time
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time

The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

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