Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.

Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.

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

The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.

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.