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

Our house is our corner of the world.

Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.

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

If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory since childhood. These memories which live by the image and in virtue of the image become, at certain times of our lives and particularly during the quiet age, the origin and matter of a complex reverie: the memory dreams, and reverie remembers.

In our life as a civilized person in the industrial age, we are invaded by objects; how could an object have a "force" when it no longer has individuality?

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.