Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Why is it that when you awake to the world...
Why is it that when you awake to the world...
Why is it that when you awake to the world...
Why is it that when you awake to the world...
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When you are young, you feel that the world is full of endless possibilities. As you grow older, however, you realize that there are very few true possibilities left. That dream of love, for example, which took hold of your heart at twenty has become a faded memory. You have lived through that time and made choices which have led to everyday living. These choices have shaped your life into something that now can only be touched through memories.

Source: The Idiot

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