When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.
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Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longing...
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I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any cost.
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You have been my friend in the cosmos; you have been my only friend on this planet - the only soul to sense and seek for me within the repellent form ...
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All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamin...
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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There are so many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream...
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For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...
