8 Quotes by Roger Caillois

Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect upon and to determine.

It should be particularly stressed that the fantastic makes no sense in an out-and-out strange world. To imagine the fantastic in it is even impossible. In a world full of marvels the extraordinary loses its power.

The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality

Clausius and Darwin cannot both be right.

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 that any contamination by ordinary life runs the risk of corrupting and destroying its very nature.

The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality.

Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves – less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect upon and to determine.

We must train ourselves in courage and generosity.