Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself.
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Dreams are a simple psychological emetic, and people who have them are more blessed than cursed
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This was it, he knew it, was sure of it, this was the door which would take him back—
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He felt like a compass needle. The needle knows nothing about magnetic north; it only knows it must point in a certain direction, like it or not.
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If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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The eyes were damned, the staring, glaring eyes of one who sees but does not see, eyes ever turned inward to the sterile hell of dreams beyond control...
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Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka...
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Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?
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Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a coincidence is just a coincidence.
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But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams...
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You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.
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If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little about damnation himself… and he had an idea that the ...
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Roland of Gilead responded as he ever had and ever would when such useless, mystifying questions were raised: 'Ka.
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In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.
