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We must listen to poets.

Gaston Bachelard

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
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
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
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
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
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
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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Growth Space Tree
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject

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