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There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up.

- #RenéDaumal
September 7, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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The path to our highest desires often lies through the undesirable.

- #RenéDaumal, 'Mount Analogue'
August 20, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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#Art is not a natural activity of man.

- #RenéDaumal, 'Rasa'
August 17, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above.

- #RenéDaumal, 'Mount Analogue'
August 17, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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Watch out for the Hollow Men ... they can come up to the surface of things. Beware of the surface of things.

- #RenéDaumal, 'Mount Analogue'
August 16, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Don’t think you’ve arrived just because you see the summit.

- #RenéDaumal, 'Mount Analogue'
July 27, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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A knife is neither true or false. But someone who grasps it by the blade is truly in error.

- #RenéDaumal, 'Mount Analogue'
July 24, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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a knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error. - Rene Daumal
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Did not realize this curious book was actually unfinished; it stops mid-sentence just as the narrative gets going !

#renéDaumal #LeMontAnalogue #mountAnalogue #sudcharente
May 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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In the whole show there's nothing but mystery and error. Where one ends, the other begins.

- #RenéDaumal, 'Mount Analogue'
July 9, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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All the means we've been given to stay alert we use to ornament our sleep.

- #RenéDaumal, ‘Mount Analogue’
July 9, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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The very name ' #philosophy' gives us to understand that it is not an end in itself. #Socrates, with his badgering good sense, said that the philosopher cannot possess wisdom, since 'philosopher' means he who loves or seeks wisdom.

- #ReneDaumal
May 15, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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You’ve always been wrong ... And all our speculation will never amount to more than the itinerary of a merely possible voyage.

- #ReneDaumal
You've always been wrong. Like me, like any man, you've let yourself slide down easy, futile slopes. Your mind has traveled only in dreams toward the truth. Compare your thought today with the things which stand in your way; your fondest theories vanish before the wall of appearances. That veil of colored shapes, sounds, and other perceptible qualities that is so easily termed illusory is solid, never-theless. This is where you started, but you chose the wrong door. Or rather you thought you started; you fell asteep on the threshold and dreamed your beliefs about the world and the mind. Today I'm waiting for you on the threshold. Well take our first halting steps together. I'm asking you first to look around you, right now, with total candor. See what is before you. Above all, don't start to question the reality of this world. By what authority could you judge it? Do you know what absolute reality is: Whoever starts on a voyage must start from wherever he is; he mustn't think the destination is already reached just because he has an accurate and detailed itinerary in his hands; the line he has drawn on a map has no meaning unless he can pinpoint his present location. You as well: look at yourself. I mean: wake up, find yourself. The place where you are is where you have to begin: the present state of your consciousness, together with all that it contains. And all our speculation will never amount to more than the itinerary of a merely possible voyage. - Rene Daumal
April 24, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.

- #RenéDaumal
April 13, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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Your #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of #ReneDaumal:
March 15, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up.

- #ReneDaumal, #BOTD 1908
March 15, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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We are afraid to the point of panic, not so much of seeing ourselves as of being seen by ourselves. This is our root absurdity. What is behind this great fear?

- #ReneDaumal #BOTD
March 15, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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This place has only three exits, sir: madness and death.

- #RenéDaumal, 'A Night of Serious Drinking'
February 15, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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Should I never speak of the Unknowable because that would be a lie? Should I speak of the Unknowable because I know that I come from it and I am bound to bear witness to it?

- #RenéDaumal
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February 14, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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You find yourself and you re-find yourself launched in an indefinite trajectory of always new awakening. If you forget it, if you think you've just woken up, at that moment again you fall asleep in spiritual death.”

- #RenéDaumal
February 5, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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#RENÉDAUMAL ON WHAT REAL AWAKENING ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE

“If you chose to be, you have taken a hard path, always on a climb that demands an effort every moment.

You wake up & immediately you must wake up again. Awakening from your awakening, your awakening appears as a dream to your deep awakening.
February 5, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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All the means we've been given to stay alert; we use to ornament our sleep. If only instead of endlessly inventing new ways to make life more comfortable we'd apply our ingenuity to fabricating instruments to jog man out of his torpor!

- #RenéDaumal, ‘Mount Analogue’
René Daumal, author of ‘Mount Analogue’—subtitled “A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing”
December 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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You’ve always been wrong ... wake up, find yourself. The place where you are is where you have to begin: the present state of your #consciousness, together with all that it contains. And all our speculation will never amount to more than the itinerary of a merely possible voyage.

- #ReneDaumal
“You've always been wrong. Like me, like any man, you've let yourself slide down easy, futile slopes. Your mind has traveled only in dreams toward the truth. Compare your thought today with the things which stand in your way; your fondest theories vanish before the wall of appearances. That veil of colored shapes, sounds, and other perceptible qualities that is so easily termed illusory is solid, never-theless. This is where you started, but you chose the wrong door. Or rather you thought you started; you fell asteep on the threshold and dreamed your beliefs about the world and the mind. Today I'm waiting for you on the threshold. Well take our first halting steps together. I'm asking you first to look around you, right now, with total candor. See what is before you. Above all, don't start to question the reality of this world. By what authority could you judge it? Do you know what absolute reality is: Whoever starts on a voyage must start from wherever he is; he mustn't think the destination is already reached just because he has an accurate and detailed itinerary in his hands; the line he has drawn on a map has no meaning unless he can pinpoint his present location. You as well: look at yourself. I mean: wake up, find yourself. The place where you are is where you have to begin: the present state of your consciousness, together with all that it contains. And all our speculation will never amount to more than the itinerary of a merely possible voyage.” - Rene Daumal
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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You have always been wrong.

- #RenéDaumal
October 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Should I never speak of the Unknowable because that would be a lie? Should I speak of the Unknowable because I know that I come from it and I am bound to bear witness to it?

- #RenéDaumal
October 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM