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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."

"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."

"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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"Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?"

"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life."

"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."

"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter."

"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."

"A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences."

"It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing."
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