Roger Caillois Quotes

Roger Caillois Quotes

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

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.

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.

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