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“But there were also surly dreams which one forgot completely, of which nothing remained but some mysterious aura, some obscure bemusement. Or else one remembered later, much later, and could no longer tell whether one had experienced something or merely dreamed it.”

“But however matters stood with him at the present, whatever decisions he might reach in the next few hours, what he urgently needed at that moment was to escape, at least for a while, into sleep and oblivion.”

“Yet this light banter…led to more serious discussion of those hidden, scarcely admitted desires which are apt to raise dark and perilous storms even in the purest, most transparent soul; and they talked about those secret regions for which they felt hardly any longing, yet towards which the irrational winds of fate might one day drive them, if only in their dreams.”