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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.

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 house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Breathe Conscience Empty Man Myself
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
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
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
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
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 characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Dreams Expression Love Poet
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching

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