In the course of my life I have often had intimations in dreams "that I should make music." The same dream came to me sometimes in one form, and sometimes in another, but always saying the same or nearly the same words: Make and cultivate music, said the dream. And hitherto I imagined that this was only intended to exhort and encourage me in the study of philosophy, which has always been the pursuit of my life, and is the noblest and best of music. The Trials Of Socrates

"Let us work without reasoning," said Martin; "it is the only way to make life endurable." Candide

“Living characters! Life must be represented not as it is, but as it ought to be; as it appears in dreams.” Uncle Vanya

“No one had any reason to be dissatisfied with what he had seen no one, that is, except for the starvation artist, he alone, always.”  A Hunger Artist