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ODILON REDON ~ THE MISTY OUTLINE OF A HUMAN FORM

10 January 2012

“The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.”

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Odilon Redon – 1840-1916

I saw above the misty outline of a human form – 1896

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