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...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.

Vladimir Nabokov
Dream, Dust, World
Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov”, p.148, Princeton University Press
...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.