“It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this.”
Hagakure (c. 1716)
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“It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream.”
Hagakure (c. 1716)
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