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"But the following passage, marked with rare psychological depth, from Marcault and Therese Brosse's excellent work, will help us to determine the main theme: 'Forests, especially, with the mystery of their space prolonged indefinitely beyond the veil of tree-trunks and leaves, space that is veiled for our eyes but transparent to action, are veritable psychological transcendents.'"

"If need be, mere absurdity can be a source of freedom."

"The surest sign of wonder is exaggeration."

"…And after we are in the new house, when memories of other places we have lived in come back to us, we travel to the land of Motionless Childhood, motionless the way all Immemorial things are. We live fixations, fixations of happiness. We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them rheir original value as images. Memories of the outside world

"A great verse can have a great influence on the soul of a language. It awakens images that had been effaced, at the same time that it confirms the unforeseeable nature of speech. And if we render speech unforeseeable, is this not an apprenticeship to freedom? What delight the poetic imagination takes in making the game of censors!