It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream

Joseph Conrad
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It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams. ✨ Heart of Darkness. Book by Joseph Conrad, 1902.
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