“We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”

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Austrian-British philosopher 1889–1951

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Variants:
Novalis (1829)
Variant: We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
Source: Novalis: Philosophical Writings

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