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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.

Gaston Bachelard

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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
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
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 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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Happiness Illusion Image Live Nourish Sweet
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
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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Dedication Dream Green Imagination Meadow River
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
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
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
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

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