To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

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.

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

Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks to you with a monotonous authority which even its author would not have. You are fairly obliged to read what is written.

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection

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

How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes.