Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one.

Unser Leben ist kein Traum, aber es soll und wird vielleicht einer werden.

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Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will. | George MacDonald, Phantastes: A Faerie Romance (London: Daldy, Isbister, & Co, 1874) epigraph to ch. 25, p. 210

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