As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.
("Till We Have Faces: A Novel of Cupid and Psyche")
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When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.C.S. Lewis
Remember that all world's draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy - Roonwit Centaur
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There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.
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No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.
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The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said
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God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.
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