“Sleeping is a way of dying or at least of dying to reality, better still it is the death of reality, but reality dies in love as in dreams. The life of man is entirely occupied by the bloody osmosis of dreams and love.”
Source: Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1961 - 1970, Diary of a Genius (1964), p. 126 In: L'amour; as quoted in Dali and Me.
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10 July 1834
Table Talk (1821–1834)

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Original: Nutri costantemente amore per il tuo sogno, affinché un giorno quel sogno diventi realtà.
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