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René Daumal
Author profile
born
in Boulzicourt, France
March 16, 1908
died
May 21, 1944
gender
male
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Mount Analogue
— published 1952 — 12 editions |
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A Night of Serious Drinking
— published 1938 — 11 editions |
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The Powers of the Word: Selected Essays and Notes, 1927-1943
by René Daumal, Mark Polizzotti — published 1972 — 2 editions |
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Le Contre-Ciel
by René Daumal, Kelton W. Knight — published 1970 — 5 editions |
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Pataphysical Essays
by René Daumal, Thomas Vosteen — published 2012 |
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You've Always Been Wrong
by René Daumal, Thomas Vosteen — published 1995 — 2 editions |
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A Fundamental Experiment
by René Daumal, Roger Shattuck — published 1987 |
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Rasa, Or, Knowledge of the Self: Essays on Indian Aesthetics and Selected Sanskrit Studies
by René Daumal, Louise L. Levi — published 1982 — 3 editions |
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Correspondance
— published 1992 — 2 editions |
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The Lie of the Truth: And Other Parables from the Way of Liberation
by René Daumal, Philip Powrie — published 1989 |
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“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”
― René Daumal
― René Daumal
“Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.”
― René Daumal, A Night of Serious Drinking
― René Daumal, A Night of Serious Drinking
“I am dead because I have no desire,
I have no desire because I think I possess,
I think I possess because I do not try to give;
Trying to give, I see that I have nothing,
Seeing that I have nothing, I try to give myself,
Trying to give myself, I see that I am nothing,
Seeing that I am nothing, I desire to become,
Desiring to become, I live.”
― René Daumal
I have no desire because I think I possess,
I think I possess because I do not try to give;
Trying to give, I see that I have nothing,
Seeing that I have nothing, I try to give myself,
Trying to give myself, I see that I am nothing,
Seeing that I am nothing, I desire to become,
Desiring to become, I live.”
― René Daumal
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