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.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.

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

Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.

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.

One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.