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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

Gaston Bachelard

One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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Corrective Hope Ideas Invention Repeat
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
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
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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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
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
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Adult Children Lost See Thinking World

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