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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.

Gaston Bachelard

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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
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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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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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
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
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
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
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
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
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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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Dreams Expression Love Poet

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