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How it could come to pass I do not know, but I remember it clearly. The dream embraced thousands of years and left in me only a sense of the whole.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
The children of the sun, the children of their sun — oh, how beautiful they were!
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
They sang the praises of nature, of the sea, of the woods.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted — you will find out at once how to arrange it all.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
Oh, how hard it is to be the only one who knows the truth! But they won't understand that. No, they won't understand it.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
A dream! What is a dream? And is not our life a dream?
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
They were laughed at or pelted with stones.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
Granted that I dreamed it, yet it must have been real. You know, I will tell you a secret: perhaps it was not a dream at all!
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness — that is what one must contend against. And I shall. If only everyone wants it, it can be arranged at once.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.
And it was after that that I found out the truth. I learnt the truth last November — on the third of November, to be precise — and I remember every instant since.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
They looked forward to that moment with joy, but without haste, not pining for it, but seeming to have a foretaste of it in their hearts, of which they talked to one another.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
Then such grief took possession of my soul that my heart was wrung, and I felt as though I were dying; and then ... then I awoke.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
I go to spread the tidings, I want to spread the tidings — of what? Of the truth, for I have seen it, have seen it with my own eyes, have seen it in all its glory.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. And it is just this faith of mine that they laugh at.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
But their knowledge was higher and deeper than ours; for our science seeks to explain what life is, aspires to understand it in order to teach others how to love, while they without science knew how to live; and that I understood, but I could not understand their knowledge.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
Let it be a dream, so be it, but that real life of which you make so much I had meant to extinguish by suicide, and my dream, my dream — oh, it revealed to me a different life, renewed, grand and full of power!
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
They pointed to the stars and told me something about them which I could not understand, but I am convinced that they were somehow in touch with the stars, not only in thought, but by some living channel.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)