“If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.”
René Magritte (1898–1967) Belgian surrealist artist
“The dream has to be translated into reality.”
— Anaïs Nin, book The Novel of the Future
The Novel of the Future (1969)
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