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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

Gaston Bachelard

Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Dreams Fiction Greatness Ourselves Poetry Situation
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
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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Children Event Life World
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
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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Distance Edge Imagination Live Past Soul Time Universe
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
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
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
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
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
GASTON BACHELARD

Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water

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