"... but if you will, it may very well be only a legend dreamed up by myself, and will always be so. I had in mind to write a story with a point. There will be those who say, more story than point. After three years we must part, my beloved book. Now you go on your trail of tears. You will have to go through a maze of antagonism and misunderstanding, like through a dark forest. But if you are lucky and meet good people, please send them your father's blessings. He believes that dreams too can be a way to fill the days that man must spend on the face of the earth. The dream is not that far from action as most tend to think. All people's actions were once a dream and all peoples actions will someday be a dream."
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Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.
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Theodor Herzl
1860 – 1904
österreichischer Schriftsteller, Journalist und Begründer des Zionismus
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