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

Gaston Bachelard

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
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
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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Knowledge Philosophy Question Science
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
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
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World
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
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
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World

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