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

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.

Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.

A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.

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.

We must listen to poets.