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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.

Gaston Bachelard

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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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