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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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Knowledge Philosophy Question Science
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
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
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
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
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
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
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
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
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
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World

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