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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

A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
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
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
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
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
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
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
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
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
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

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