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> [The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wright/the-impulse-to-dream-was-slowly-beaten-out-of-me-by-experience-now-it/)

[Richard Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wright/)

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> [Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elena-ferrante/certainly-something-had-happened-to-me-during-the-night-or-after/)

[Elena Ferrante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elena-ferrante/)

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