A brass sieve holding pearl-like beads above a blue-and-white porcelain dish, with beads scattered below.

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Michele de Montaigne

Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker presents dreams as honest expressions of our inclinations, while warning that their meaning is not immediately obvious. Understanding them requires a kind of interpretive skill. The contrast puts truthful expression on one side and the difficulty of reading it on the other.

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