“Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.”

— Gregory David Roberts , book Shantaram

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Australian writer and bank robber 1952

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