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"When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountain, falling. It makes no sign, it does not beckon, it does not see us. Behind it roars the sea. It is beyond our reach. Yet there I venture. There I go to replenish my emptiness, to stretch my nights and fill them fuller and fuller with dreams. And for a second even now, even here, I reach my object and say, "Wander no more. All is trial and make-believe. Here is the end."

"They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say."

"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."

"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"

"Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart."

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."
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"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."

"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."

"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."

"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."
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