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

The words of the world want to make sentences.

A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in tableaux. Decor takes precedence over drama. Sad memories take on at least the peace of melancholy.

To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.

When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.

I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting.

The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.