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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

Gaston Bachelard

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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.
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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
To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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Dedication Dream Green Imagination Meadow River
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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