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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.

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
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Adult Children Lost See Thinking World
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
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
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
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
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
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
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
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
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner

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