
Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 42
Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 42
“Even if my country remains at war with yours... remember … I am not your enemy.”
Source: The Keys of the Kingdom (1941), p. 281
“I am told, in a dream … you can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream.”
Speaking of a dream not fully remembered, in Fragments of a Journal (1966)
Context: I am told, in a dream... you can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream. So in my dream, I fall asleep, and I dream, in my dream, that I'm having that absolute, revealing dream.
“You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.”
Letter to William Strahan (5 July 1775); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Epistles
“I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.”
“O dream on your black wings
you come when I am sleeping.”
The Willis Barnstone translations, Dream
“Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.”
The Garden of Forking Paths (1942), The Garden of Forking Paths