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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.

Gaston Bachelard

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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
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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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
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
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
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
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection

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