The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.

Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.

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

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.

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.