A dreamer may dwell so long among fantasies that the things without him will seem as unreal as those within.
Sometimes, too, the Past comes back, and finds me here, and in her train come faces which were gladsome when I knew them, yet seem not gladsome now.
And when, at noontide, I tread the crowded streets, the influence of this day will still be felt; so that I shall walk among men kindly and as a brother, with affection and sympathy, but yet shall not melt into the indistinguishable mass of humankind. I shall think my own thoughts and feel my own emotions and possess my individuality unviolated.
In our brief summer I do not think, but only exist in the vague enjoyment of a dream.
all quotes from "Foot-prints on the Sea-shore", Nathaniel Hawthorne
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