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“We live, as we dream—alone...” Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” - 1899

“All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Beautiful and Damned” - 1922

“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“And there is nothing like dreams for engendering the future.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your dream regardless of what anyone else says or thinks. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture—and even you can’t see it all.” Oprah Winfrey, “What I Know For Sure” - 2014

“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.” Haruki Murakami, “Sputnik Sweetheart” - 1999

“It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream.” William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night's Dream” - 1601

“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.” Oscar Wilde, “Intentions” - 1891

“Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?” Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Return of Tarzan” - 1913

“Life, what is it but a dream?” Lewis Carroll, “Through the Looking-Glass” - 1871

“Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Tales of the Jazz Age” - 1922

“We all dream of things we cannot have.” George R. R. Martin, “A Feast for Crows” - 2005

“We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straitly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Scarlet Letter” - 1850

“Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven” - 1845

“It must be very peaceful, he thought, to lie and slumber and dream forever and ever, with the wind whispering through the trees and caressing the grass and the flowers over the grave, and nothing to bother and grieve about, ever any more.” Mark Twain, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” - 1876

“Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese—toasted, mostly—and woke up again, and here I were.” Robert Louis Stevenson, “Treasure Island” - 1883

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Martin Luther King, Jr., “I have a Dream” - 28 August 1963

“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.” Martin Luther King, Jr., “I have a Dream” - 28 August 1963

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting, he thought, as he looked again at the position of the sun, and hurried his pace.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.” Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” - 1899

“I am sorry I can say nothing more consoling to you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” - 1880

“When a man dreams his own dream, he is the sport of his dream; when Another gives it him, that Other is able to fulfil it.” George MacDonald, “Lilith” - 1895

“But in this retirement of the mind from the senses, it often retains a yet more loose and incoherent manner of thinking, which we call dreaming.” John Locke, “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” - 1689

“Each one dreams the dream of life in his own way. I have dreamed it in my library; and when the hour shall come in which I must leave this world, may it please God to take me from my ladder—from before my shelves of books!” Anatole France, “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard” - 1881

“If we avail ourselves for a moment longer of the right to elaborate from the dream interpretation such far-reaching psychological speculations, we are in duty bound to demonstrate that we are thereby bringing the dream into a relationship which...” Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams” - 1899

“The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream.” Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams” - 1899

“If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends.” Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams” - 1899

“Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor.” Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams” - 1899

“To me, who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of the people around me have continued to have a certain storybook quality.” Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt” - 1961

“You know this fellow is many-sided, a tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.” Charlie Chaplin, “My Autobiography” - 1964

“The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as long as I dared, but always heeding the call!” Kenneth Grahame, “The Wind in the Willows” - 1908

“It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began.” Neil Gaiman, “American Gods” - 2001

“Why do I always think and dream the most awful things and want to scream in terror?” Anne Frank, “The Diary of a Young Girl” - 1947

“You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!” Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie” - 1944

“Go to the moon — you selfish dreamer!” Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie” - 1944

“When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.” Stephenie Meyer, “Twilight” - 2005

“Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein” - 1818

“The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein” - 1818

“If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“He never realized that people are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“If I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.” Stephenie Meyer, “Twilight” - 2005

“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there—to the edge of the world. There's...” Haruki Murakami, “Kafka on the Shore” - 2002

“He was part of my dream, of course—but then I was part of his dream, too!” Lewis Carroll, “Through the Looking-Glass” - 1871

“But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, and can re-capture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty of it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and...” Kenneth Grahame, “The Wind in the Willows” - 1908

“We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other’s dreams.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.” George MacDonald, “Phantastes” - 1858

“It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream—a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought—a vagrant...” Mark Twain, “The Mysterious Stranger” - 1916

“Our dreams prove that to imagine . . . is among mankind's deepest needs.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

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