Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.

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.

He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.

There is no original truth, only original error.

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.

To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream.

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.