Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.”
Source: The Division of Labor in Society (1893), p. 129 (in 1933 edition, lushqoutes https://lushquotes.com/dream-quotes-collection-part-6/)
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