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We understand nature by resisting it.

Gaston Bachelard

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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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