Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we come back to them in our daydreams. A psychoanalyst should, therefore, turn his attention to this simple localization of our memories. I should like to give the name of topoanalysis to this auxiliary of pyschoanalysis. Topoanalysis, then would be the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives.

Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!

Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.

Childhood lasts all through life.

One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.