Roger Caillois Quotes
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We must train ourselves in courage and generosity.
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Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to…
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I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal…
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The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality
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In strongly opposing the world of play to that of reality, and in stressing that play is essentially a side activity, the interference is drawn…
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Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious slime,…
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I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in things.…
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