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

Gaston Bachelard

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
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
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
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
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
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
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
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

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