The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
GASTON BACHELARDA 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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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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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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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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