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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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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Dreams Fiction Greatness Ourselves Poetry Situation
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
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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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
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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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
We must listen to poets.
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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
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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Corrective Hope Ideas Invention Repeat
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
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

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