Rene Daumal Quotes
A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.
Citations
Daumal, René. Mount Analogue. Translated by Roger Shattuck, Pantheon Books, 1959.
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René Daumal was a French spiritual para-surrealist writer, critic and poet, best known for his posthumously published novel Mount Analogue (1952) as well as for being an early, outspoken practitioner of pataphysics.