“Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world
“Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time
“Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world
“I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake
“Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking