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

Gaston Bachelard

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
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
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
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
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
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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Gift Mindset Soul Time
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Empty Ourselves Page Right Word
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
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 only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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Distance Edge Imagination Live Past Soul Time Universe
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner

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

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