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Ever drifting down the stream—
Lingering in the golden gleam—
Life, what is it but a dream?

‘In our country,’ [Alice] remarked. ‘there’s only one day at a time.’

‘It’s too late to correct it,’ said the Red Queen: ‘when you’ve once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.’

‘What does it matter where my body happens to be?’ [the White Knight] said. ‘My mind goes on working all the same. In fact, the more head-downwards I am, the more I keep inventing new things.’

‘Because people don’t fall off quite so often, when they’ve had much practice.’
‘I’ve had plenty of practice,’ the Knight said very gravely

‘So I wasnt dreaming after all..unless we’re all part of the same dream. Only I do hope it’s my dream…I don’t like belonging to another person’s dream.’

‘I beg your pardon?’ Said Alice
‘It isn’t respectable to beg,’ said the King.

[humpty] ‘I can explain all the poems that were ever invented—and a good many that haven’t been invented just yet.’

What matted it to her just then that the rushes had begun to fade, and to lose all their scent and beauty, from the very moment that she picked them?…but Alice hardly noticed this, there were so many other curious things to think about.

[picking the rushes] ‘The prettiest are always further!’ She said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off…