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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Gaston Bachelard

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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Man is an imagining being.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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