deliriums are dreams not encircled by sleep; and all dreams transport us back into youth, why not deliriums too?
"The Campaner Thal and Other Writings"
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Such historical memorials are the deliriums of learning, or are founded on forgeries.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)"
Isaac D'Israeli
Even the monsters which crawl through the deliriums of the mind are not as horrible as those which infest the mad and haunted world of which I speak.
"Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930"
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