For a mountain to play the role of Mount Analogue, I conclu… - René Daumal

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For a mountain to play the role of Mount Analogue, I concluded, its summit must be inaccessible but its base accessible to human beings as nature has made them... The door to the invisible must be visible.

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René Daumal (March 16, 1908 – May 21, 1944) was a French writer, philosopher and poet.

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Pen Names: Mouchamiel • Nathaniel • Oncle Nathaniel

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"I am a man?" Why not say, "I am Alphonse," or "I am a wholesaler," or "a crook," or "a mammal," or "a philosopher," or "a proud animal"?

A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

I went for him, shook him by the shoulders with nothing better to shout at him but 'Why? Why?'
He answered me gravely, 'It's true. But you must begin to think of *how*.

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