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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness
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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Gift Mindset Soul Time
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
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
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
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
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
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
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
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
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

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