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"The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing."
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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."

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."

"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy."

"She was someone's dream, who just chose to show up in someone else's sleep."

"I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames."
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"The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster."

"What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?"

"All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'."
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