Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.

All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.

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

We must listen to poets.

It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.