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I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to...

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you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only...

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William JoyceNicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling ...

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Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further ever...

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In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of p...

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Anaïs NinChildren of the Albatross

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

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Arundhati RoyThe God of Small Things

When the founding fathers conceived of this new nation, they understood that the education of its ci...

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Azar NafisiThe Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books

It is not just bookstores and libraries that are disappearing but museums, theaters, performing arts...

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Azar NafisiThings I've Been Silent About: Memories

We were fighting about nothing important while dreaming of the same things.

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Boy GeorgeTake It Like A Man: The Autobiography Of Boy George

Groping blindly in the darkness, he sank between the white mounds of cool feathers and slept as he f...

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We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

As long as I can dream, I will dream of you.

He was back in the water, not braving but frowning, synchronised swimming, not swimming but sinking,...

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Every night, we’re all having multiple metaphysical experiences, wholly constructed by our subconsci...

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Chuck KlostermanBut What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

Dream!Forge yourself and riseOut of your mind and into others.Men, be women.Fish, be flies.Girls, ta...

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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think ...

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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

Now I'm dreaming, will I ever find you now?I walk in circles but I'll never figure outWhat I mean to...

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I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.

But if the Dream Kings were mine, what would I have to dream about? If I possessed the impossible la...

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I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I've sought – as my own version of th...

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I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming,...

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I'm almost convinced that I'm never awake. I'm not sure if I'm not in fact dreaming when I live, and...

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What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness o...

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Perhaps he still hopes. If there’s any justice in the Gods’ injustice, then may they let us keep our...

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Like every dreamer, I've always felt that my calling was to create. Since I've never been able to ma...

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I have to choose what I detest - either dreaming which my intelligence hates, or action, which my se...

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Fernando PessoaThe Book of Disquiet

Contemplating a flame perpetuates a primordial reverie. It separates us from the world and enlarges ...

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Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly ...

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Gaston BachelardThe Poetics of Reverie

It is not the hysterical alone for whom the great dash of cold water is good.All who dream life, ins...

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Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after a...

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Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.

He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers h...

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I dream, sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time.

You’re afraid of imagination. And even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begi...

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I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing...

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If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be tru...

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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly t...

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Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exerc...

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Italo CalvinoIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by th...

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And I dreamed of a home long ago in New England, my little kitkats trying to go a thousand miles fol...

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Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

McAfee, I could try this case in my sleep and still win.""Guess that's your plan, then, since you're...

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You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world wi...

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You, you may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all ex...

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There you'll find the place I love most in the world. The place where I grew thin from dreaming. My ...

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You've been dreaming lies again, Susana.

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Juan RulfoPedro Páramo

What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

One day or one night—between my days and nights, what difference can there be?—I dreamed that there ...

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The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer did...

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Joseph CampbellA Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream...

Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their...

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The dream world of sleep and the dream world of music are not far apart. I often catch glimpses of o...

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Linda RonstadtSimple Dreams: A Musical Memoir

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmaresif there seemed any danger of their coming tru...

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Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

This was like walking the line between dream and sleep. The night-sharp balance of being asleep enou...

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Sometimes, as Eve was born from one of Adam’s ribs, a woman was born during my sleep from a cramped ...

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from under the ground, from under the waters,they clutch at us, they clutch at us,we won’t let go.

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Margaret AtwoodMorning in the Burned House

It is a fact that if an impulse from one or the other sphere comes up and is not lived out, then it ...

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Marie-Louise von FranzThe Psychological Meaning of Redemption Motifs in Fairytales

I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much diffe...

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To interrupt the writer from the line of thought is to wake the dreamer from the dream. The dreamer ...

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When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

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Michael PollanA Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder

Dreaming is not only an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagin...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

Whoa, you got my head in the cloudsWhoa, you got me thinking out loudThe more you dream about me the...

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Miley CyrusHannah Montana: The Movie

So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And w...

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J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus...

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Approaching the state of Delaware, the dreamer is a small dog, dreaming impatiently of a past life, ...

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Neil GaimanPreludes & Nocturnes

And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each liv...

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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment...

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By night, beloved, tie your heart to mineand let them both in dreams defeat the darkness

and dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That w...

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A shepherd may like to travel, but he should never forget his sheep.

We're all dreaming,” Arctor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the l...

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These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Futur...

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Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

Dreaminess is, among other things, a state of suspended recognition, and a response to too much usel...

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I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I alm...

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You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck."Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on ...

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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been ...

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Ol' man Simon, planted a diamond. Grew hisself a garden the likes of none. Sprouts all growin' comin...

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She is always pretending she loves me, but look at her now. Am I in her thoughts? Is there a tender ...

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Sherwood AndersonDeath in the Woods and Other Stories

You must try to forget all you have learned,' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this ...

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And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nut...

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The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real w...

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But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount...

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All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake u...

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First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and bet...

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(Dreams drain the spirit if we dream too long.)

I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.