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English writer 1635-1691
Rene Daumal
French poet and novelist
Rene Daumal was a French spiritual para-surrealist writer, critic and poet, best known for his posthumously published novel Mount Analogueas well as for being an early, outspoken practitioner of pataphysics.
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About the Rene Daumal
Rene Daumal was a French spiritual para-surrealist writer, critic and poet, best known for his posthumously published novel Mount Analogueas well as for being an early, outspoken practitioner of pataphysics.
4 Quotes by Rene Daumal
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Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
Rene DaumalFrench poet and novelist
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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.
Rene DaumalFrench poet and novelist
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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.
Rene DaumalFrench poet and novelist
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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.
Rene DaumalFrench poet and novelist