“When we can't dream any longer we die.”

— Emma Goldman

Quoted by Margaret C. Anderson in "Emma Goldman in Chicago" http://books.google.com/books?id=zstCAQAAMAAJ&q=%22When+we+can't+dream+any+longer+we+die%22&pg=PA321#v=onepage, Mother Earth magazine (December 1914)

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