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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

Gaston Bachelard

The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
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
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
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
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
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
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
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
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
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
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
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject

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