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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

Gaston Bachelard

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
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
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
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
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
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
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Breathe Conscience Empty Man Myself
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 metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
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
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

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