Émile Chartier

“ I desire only that the wisdom of days preserves you and preserves me from such dreams; but to believe a little too much of it, if you have them, nothing will preserve you. That to give the understanding that, as soon one pays attention to a dream, the passion turns us away from considering the true causes. ”

“ We are no more in the times when the fantastic creations of dreams were considered as the announcements of destiny. But it is not necessary at all to trust too much in the lights; and man has not so much changed that he can think without confusion of a dream which would have connection to his more lively affections, as of a sick friend or calumniator, or of an unfaithful woman, or of a son killed in combat. ”

“ For example, noises touch us; a bell, a clock chime, a voice are heard and can be interpreted, therefore perceived although very badly. An odor, of the same. With regard to touch, it never ceases, by the weight of the body, by the heat and the cold, by the contact of clothing, from us to give to thinking. ”