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" And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I dream.
Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; now that I have unlimited power, I am going to create a tiger.

Oh incompetence! Never do my dreams engender the wild beast I longed for.
The tiger indeed appears, but stuffed or flimsy, or with impure variations of shape, or of an implausible size, or all too fleeting, or with a touch of the dog or bird. "

Jorge Luis Borges , Dreamtigers


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Jorge Luis Borges quote : And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I dream.<br />Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; now that I have unlimited power, I am going to create a tiger.<br /><br />Oh incompetence! Never do my dreams engender the wild beast I longed for.<br />The tiger indeed appears, but stuffed or flimsy, or with impure variations of shape, or of an implausible size, or all too fleeting, or with a touch of the dog or bird.