Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

When the image is new, the world is new.

One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.

In contrast to a dream a reverie cannot be recounted. To be communicated, it must be written, written with emotion and taste, being relived all the more strongly because it is being written down. Here, we are touching the realm of written love. It is going out of fashion, but the benefits remain. There are still souls for whom love is the contact of two poetries, the fusion of two reveries.

By following "the path of reverie"-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time, when one is dreaming, to "do phenomenology."

What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?