"I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it."

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Source : "The Many Faces of Gustave Moreau" by Bennett Schiff, August 1999.

Gustave Moreau

#Dream Quotes #Reality Quotes #Play Quotes

“It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.88, Vanderbilt University Press
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