She could stand to think that life’s experiences, good and bad, died with the body, but she couldn’t bear to believe that the dreams vanished too, those exquisite flights of reverie that never actually happened. All those experiences you can have for free. How could they burn and turn to ash? She would disappear one day, too, both her flesh and the woman she dreamed herself to be. Jill Ciment
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In The Secret History, Donna Tartt captures the idea that our dreams are immortal. The idea that our experiences, good and bad, have a way of transcending time and entering the realm of memory. We all have a recollection of an experience in our lives that we wish we could relive in a way that it was different. Yet it was a memory that we cherished for a brief moment in time and then it died out when the dream became reality.

Source: Act Of God

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