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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
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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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
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
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
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
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
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
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
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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Distance Edge Imagination Live Past Soul Time Universe

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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