"We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming " — Novalis

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.

Source: Lord Jim (1900)

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