Henry David Thoreau
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
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Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
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“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
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The line is buried in Thoreau’s first book, which sold so badly he carted the unsold copies home himself — later joking he had a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, most of them his own. His sharpest thought about imagination almost disappeared with it.
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He buried his sharpest line about imagination in a book nobody bought. I like rescuing the ones that got away.
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