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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.

Gaston Bachelard

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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
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
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water
Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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Childhood Children Cover Imagination Ourselves Possible Solitary
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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Destiny Future Image Language Oneself Poetry Speech
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
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
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin

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