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

By following "the path of reverie"-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time, when one is dreaming, to "do phenomenology."

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.

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?

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

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