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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

Gaston Bachelard

The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
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
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
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
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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Addition Book Day Expression Life
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
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
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet

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