Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.

Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.

Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.

To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream.

A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

The words of the world want to make sentences.