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“They reminded me that it was my fate to pursue only phantoms, creatures whose reality existed to a great extent in my imagination; for…

— Marcel Proust

“We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying what we think, then how little we are…

— Virginia Woolf

“The world is a parable-the habitation of symbols-the phantoms of spiritual things immortal shown in material shape.”

— Sheridan Le Fanu

“Even when life unfolds, unknown or unfair, I continue to dream. Even in the shadows, I glimpse the horizon, and ponder what lies beyond.”

— April S. Rolfe

“Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but clouds sweep between--Is my journey’s end coming?”

— Herman Melville

“For I do not exist: there exist but thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“...perhaps, when it got utterly dark, the peace of the darkness would become the same as light so that my last experience would become…

— Derek Raymond

“...when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too will end, that…

— Anne Frank

“If our life were an eternal standing by the window, if we could remain there forever, like hovering smoke, with the same moment of…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Human beings.. have souls which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air…

— Hans Christian Andersen

“Despite the perturbations of the world, life goes on. The sky presents an endless canopy of translucent blue. The still air is suffused with…

— John Dolan

“There is no light in the darkest melancholy - it's just a hole waiting for the soul and body.”

— Karin Johannisson