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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

Gaston Bachelard

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
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
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Breathe Conscience Empty Man Myself
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Empty Ourselves Page Right Word
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
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 live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
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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Happiness Illusion Image Live Nourish Sweet
Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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Childhood Cosmos Happiness Human Man Peace Solitude Son World
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

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