“We live as we dream--alone....”

“We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.”

“No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.”

“It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams...No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream-alone...”

“We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!”

“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.”

“We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.”