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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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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 lasts all through life.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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