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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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