Painterly pale and dark moths beside a flower above a violet twilight landscape.

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Tori Amos

I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Tori Amos describes holding both hope and dread in view at once, insisting the two cannot exist apart from each other, framing beauty and darkness as inseparable pieces of the same experience rather than opposing forces one must choose between.

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