Alive Quote by Michael Shurtleff

“Everyone thinks romance is weak. Yet romance is everyone's secret dream-it's why we're alive.”

Michael Shurtleff

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If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going.

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