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.

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and flight of being, evening's crystallization and wings that open to the light.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal creation (as opposed to a didactic statement) from one language to another, he is confronted with two equally unsatisfactory choices. He may, according to his talents, elaborate a similar, but never identical creation, or he may describe that creation as completely as possible in his own language.