There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

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.

The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

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.

For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?