An apocalypse is the opposite of a dream. A dream is falser than the outer life. But the end of the world is more actual than the world it ends.
启示与梦恰恰相反。梦比外在的生活更虚幻,而世界的终结,却比它所终结的世界更加真实。
— G. K. Chesterton · The Ball and the Cross · XIX · The Last Parley —