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

Childhood lasts all through life.

Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.

How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes.

The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.