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"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."
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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."

"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."

"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?"

"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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"I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery."

"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"

"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once."

"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."

"It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived."

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."
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