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No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream...

— Gustave Moreau Gustave Moreau (1972)

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I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

Gustave Moreau (1972)

I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.

Sleep, though sad] is gentler than tears which, though painful, are gentler than death.

I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel.

I have designed a decorative and monumental work as a group of subjects representing the three ages of sacred and profane mythology: the Golden Age, the Silver Age and the Iron Age.

Gustave Moreau (1972)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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