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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

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
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
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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Character Known Ourselves Progress
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
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
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective 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
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
Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Dreams Fiction Greatness Ourselves Poetry Situation
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
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
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
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

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