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

Gaston Bachelard

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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Man is an imagining being.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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