. through the [cave] paintings the animals are drawn into the notional world of human beings. This notional world stands in the same relation to the external world as the self does in relation to the inner world; it prevents us from vanishing into it.

Both the self and the notional world are immaterial entities, they don't exist in the same way elem

Perhaps imagination is not where we go to escape reality but where we go to remember it.

All literature is an attempt to make life real. As all of us know, even when we don’t act on what we know, life is absolutely unreal in its directly real form; the country, the city and our ideas are all absolutely fictitious things, the offspring of our complex sensation of our own selves. Impressions are incommunicable unless we make them literar