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Michel Leiris - Nights as day, days as night (1987)

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Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream – a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows – is essentially poetry.

Michel Leiris

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Michel Leiris

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Born: April 20, 1901
Died: September 30, 1990 (aged 89)
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