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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whethe...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se...

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You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dream...

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Every night, before he turned in, he would write in the book. He wrote about things he had done, thi...

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E. B. WhiteThe Trumpet of the Swan

deeds cannot dream what dreams can do

i think you will be tired of tellingme & my dreams to go to hell

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E. E. CummingsEtcetera: The Unpublished Poems

I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unl...

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E. T. A. HoffmannThe Golden Pot and Other Tales

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remark...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

If there were nothing but thought in you. You wouldn't even know your thinking. You would be like a ...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth m...

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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth ma...

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I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid c...

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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.

Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow-You are not wrong, w...

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Edgar Allan PoeThe Complete Stories and Poems

Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow-You are not wrong, w...

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Edgar Allan PoeThe Complete Stories and Poems

Ah, dream too bright to last! Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise But to be overcast! A voice from out...

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Edgar Allan PoeThe Complete Stories and Poems

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

DREAMSNever by many are marvels wrought,By one or two are the dreams first caught. . .The dreamer mu...

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O world, that's you!You are but a widened place in the riverWhere Life looks down and we rejoice for...

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Edgar Lee MastersSpoon River Anthology

You mustn't tell your dreams. Miss Testvalley says nothing bores people so much as being told other ...

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Edith WhartonThe Buccaneers

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every s...

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted ...

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An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in hi...

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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gon...

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Emily BrontëWuthering Heights

I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they hav...

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Emily BrontëWuthering Heights

When we can't dream any longer we die.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

When in the puppet-show of dreams we hold in hand the strings of quite a number of actors, controlli...

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Erwin SchrödingerWhat Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages ...

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Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into ac...

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I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than ...

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A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should ...

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If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something...

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Love thou thy dreamAll base love scorning,Love thou the windAnd here take warningThat dreams alone c...

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The attitude of the city on his action was of no importance to him, not because he was going to leav...

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It was a curious day, slashed abruptly with fleeting, familiar impressions.

He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search ...

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Breathing dreams like air

Amory, sorry for them, was still not sorry for himself - art, politics, religion, whatever his mediu...

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…And my heart openedlike a flower under sky,its petals of desire,its stamens of dreams…

The only way to survive in this world is by keeping alive our dream, without ever fulfilling it, sin...

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In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analys...

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We, all who live, haveA life that is livedAnd another life that is thought,And the only life we have...

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I am nothing.I'll never be anything.I couldn't want to be something.Apart from that, I have in me al...

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The only thing I’ve loved is nothing at all. The only thing I’ve desired is what I couldn’t even ima...

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Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

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 had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ...

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

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you know we've all sinned a lot against scienceso we really ought to be as available as an appleon a...

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What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and M a slave! You move mer...

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Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

Goal: Clean air, clean clear-running rivers, the presence of Pelican and Osprey and Gray Whale in ou...

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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen whic...

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Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the pas...

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You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumpi...

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When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even for...

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Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, W...

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Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it.

Some dreams, some poems, some musical phrases, some pictures, wake feelings such as one never had be...

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What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. “I can’t fly!” You’r...

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The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled aro...

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Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the other who would drag us all into the eternal ...

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Dreams can lie, your Grace.

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George R. R. MartinA Dance with Dragons

She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream....

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One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd b...

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Dreams turn to dust in light of day.

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George R. R. MartinA Feast for Crows

Even in dreams, you could not fall forever.

Every boy dreams of serving in the Kingsguard.

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George R. R. MartinA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

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

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

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It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery pa...

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Graham GreeneJourney Without Maps

There are dreams which belong only partly in the unconscious; these are the dreams we remember on wa...

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Graham GreeneThe Ministry of Fear

Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.

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Grant MorrisonBatman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anyt...

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He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides

How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerl...

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At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailo...

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At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange...

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....and I gazed at these forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of t...

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Guy de MaupassantThe Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant

my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell I hold my honey and I store my bread In little jars a...

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When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.

Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours...

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I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined ...

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You have been my friend in the cosmos; you have been my only friend on this planet - the only soul t...

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All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those bo...

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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

There are so many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of the...

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