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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."
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"What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them."

"Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy."

"I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves."

"Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak."

"People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me."

"A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life."

"Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view."

"I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love."

"That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all."
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