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All the means we've been given to stay alert we use to ornament our sleep. If instead of endlessly i...

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Mount Analogue

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content…it must also have a goal and an impe...

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A Night of Serious Drinking

This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.

A Night of Serious Drinking

I think I possess because I do not try to give,Trying to give, I see that I have nothing.

Mount Analogue

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What i...

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A Night of Serious Drinking

it is very tempting, when you talk about the events of the past, to impose clarity and order upon wh...

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A Night of Serious Drinking

A man who makes a plate or a shirt or a loaf of bread or anything our great great ancestors called a...

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You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place...

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I am dead because I lack desire,I lack desire because I think I possess.I think I possess because I ...

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Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

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René Daumal

Writer

Born: 1908-03-16

Died: 1944-05-21

René Daumal (March 16, 1908 – May 21, 1944) was a French writer, philosopher and poet.More