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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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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
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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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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

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