“Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are cheques drawn on insufficient funds.”

—  René Daumal, book A Night of Serious Drinking

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A Night of Serious Drinking (1938)

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French poet and writer 1908–1944

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