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Rene Daumal [1908-1944] French
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René Daumal was a French spiritual para-surrealist writer and poet, best known for his posthumously published novel Mount Analogue as well as for being an early, outspoken practitioner of 'pataphysics.


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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
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Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
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It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
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