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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

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Anais Nin reflects on the elusive nature of dreams, describing their constant motion and her desire to align herself with them. She considers the act of catching up to a dream and experiencing harmony with it as an extraordinary miracle.
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Author, American
Anais Nin was an American author known for her diaries and erotic literature.
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