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Rene Daumal quotes: I'm very much aware I can't think. I'm a poet.

I'm very much aware I can't think. I'm a poet.

Rene Daumal quotes: A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

Rene Daumal quotes: Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

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

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

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

Rene Daumal quotes: Never halt on a shifting slope. Even if you think you have a firm foothold ...

Never halt on a shifting slope. Even if you think you have a firm foothold ...

Rene Daumal quotes: Art is here taken to mean knowledge realized in action.

Art is here taken to mean knowledge realized in action.

Rene Daumal quotes: It is very tempting, when you talk about the events of the past, to impose clarity and order upon what had neither one nor the other.

It is very tempting, when you talk about the events of the past, to impose clarity and order upon what had neither one nor the other.

Rene Daumal quotes: Everyone pretended to understand so as not to interrupt.

Everyone pretended to understand so as not to interrupt.

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

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

Rene Daumal quotes: The odor of literature as a stopgap, of words piled one upon the other to avoid taking action or to console oneself for being incapable of it.

The odor of literature as a stopgap, of words piled one upon the other to avoid taking action or to console oneself for being incapable of it.

Rene Daumal quotes: I succeeded by following the same method, which consists in regarding the problem as solved and deducing from the solution all logical consequences.

I succeeded by following the same method, which consists in regarding the problem as solved and deducing from the solution all logical consequences.

Rene Daumal quotes: The door to the invisible must be visible.

The door to the invisible must be visible.

Rene Daumal quotes: The path of greatest desires often lies ... through the undesirable.

The path of greatest desires often lies ... through the undesirable.

Rene Daumal quotes: It's not the end of it when you've drowned your black thoughts, because afterwards there are blue thoughts and red thoughts and yellow thoughts ...

It's not the end of it when you've drowned your black thoughts, because afterwards there are blue thoughts and red thoughts and yellow thoughts ...

Rene Daumal quotes: Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.

Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.

Rene Daumal quotes: The man who would find his vegetal negative and unite with it would restore the integrity of the cosmos.

The man who would find his vegetal negative and unite with it would restore the integrity of the cosmos.

Rene Daumal quotes: To return to the source of things, one has to travel in the opposite direction.

To return to the source of things, one has to travel in the opposite direction.