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The only way to survive in this world is by keeping alive our dream, without ever fulfilling it, since the fulfilment never measures up to what we ima...more

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In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality fro...more

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Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it m...more

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We, all who live, haveA life that is livedAnd another life that is thought,And the only life we haveIt's the one that is dividedIn right or wrong.

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All letters of love are Ridiculous. They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not Ridiculous.

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I am nothing.I'll never be anything.I couldn't want to be something.Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

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No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may haveThat is part of one's self

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Yes it’s me, I myself, what I turned out to be, (…) I’m the one here in myself, it’s me. (…) Whatever I was, whatever I wasn’t—it’s all in what I am. ...more

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Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

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I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting doe...more

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I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands, and I said nothing about...more

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I'm almost convinced that I'm never awake. I'm not sure if I'm not in fact dreaming when I live, and living when I dream, or if dreaming and living ar...more

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Perhaps he still hopes. If there’s any justice in the Gods’ injustice, then may they let us keep our dreams, even when they’re impossible, and may our...more

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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.