The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
GASTON BACHELARDEmpirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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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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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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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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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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