Quote by Emile Durkheim
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered i

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations reality is therefore abandoned. – Emile Durkheim

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Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth. – Emile Durkheim

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Sadness
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Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. – Emile Durkheim

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Sadness
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While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them. – Emile Durkheim

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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. – William Dement

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You only get one album. You only get one single. You get one shot in music. But I have a million different dreams. Why cant I go out and try to achieve them all? Who are you to say I cant? – Lucy Hale

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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act. – Dave Freudenthal

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