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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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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Growth Space Tree
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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Corrective Hope Ideas Invention Repeat
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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Gift Mindset Soul Time
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
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
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
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World

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