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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

Gaston Bachelard

A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
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
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
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
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
To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water

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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