Quote by Arthur Machen
If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun h

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress. – Arthur Machen

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Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science. – Arthur Machen

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It is all nonsense, to be sure and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams – not by any means of all dreams – moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis. – Arthur Machen

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Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery. – Arthur Machen

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The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing. – Elizabeth Bishop

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As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm. – Terrence Howard

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Dreams are free therapy. Consult your inner Freud. – Terri Guillemets

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Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily. – Gilda Radner

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Veiling truth in mystery. – Virgil

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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. – Mahatma Gandhi

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