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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.

Gaston Bachelard

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Children Event Life World
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
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
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
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
What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
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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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Date Determination Intimacy Knowledge Local Space Urgent
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
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
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
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
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

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