Roger Caillois Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: March 3, 1913 - December 21, 1978
Birthday: March 3
Death: December 21
Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious slime, of surface mildew, in which a ferment is already working. A turbulent, spasmodic sap, a presage and expectation of a new way of being, breaking with mineral perpetuity and boldly exchanging it for the doubtful privilege of being able to tremble, decay, and multiply.
source: Roger Caillois (1985). “The writing of stones”, Univ of Virginia Pr
topic: Expectations, Challenges, Secret, Slime, Mildew, Exchanging, Minerals
