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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."
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"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."
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"When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure."
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"The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker."
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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
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"Moonlight flooded in the windows and silvered the room, turning it into a lagoon of dreams."
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"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"
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"There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream."
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"At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw."
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"A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it."
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"But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?"
Criticism
"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."
God
"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise."
Wisdom
"I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera."
People
"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught."
Thought
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."
Friendship
"I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."
Love
"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."
Man
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
Dance
"Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top."
Poetry
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