The more you try to describe a dream the further it eludes your grasp, retreating before the advance of the words, growing cooler and cooler and pale… - Michael Frayn

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The more you try to describe a dream the further it eludes your grasp, retreating before the advance of the words, growing cooler and cooler and paler and paler, until, when you have recorded it all, there is nothing of what it was really like left in your memory.