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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!

Gaston Bachelard

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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
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
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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Childhood Children Cover Imagination Ourselves Possible Solitary
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
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
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
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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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
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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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
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
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
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Empty Ourselves Page Right Word
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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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
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
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
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World

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