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I fell into a reverie, and lo, the atoms were gamboling before my eyes.

— August Kekulé Statements about a reverie in 1854 (1890)

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One of the snakes had seized hold of its own tail, and the form whirled mockingly before my eyes.

Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps we shall learn the truth . . . but let us beware of publishing our dreams before they have been approved by the waking mind.

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