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“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

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.” George MacDonald, Phantastes
“We all dream of things we cannot have.” George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
“We live, as we dream—alone...” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
“Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream.” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“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
“If you can't have the reality, a dream is just as good.” Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
“fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.” William Golding, Lord of the Flies
“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
“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
“The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“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
“If I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“Why live in real life? It's better to dream. One can dream the most delightful things, but real life is a bore.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“Life, what is it but a dream?” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“And there is nothing like dreams for engendering the future.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.” Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
“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
“Go to the moon — you selfish dreamer!” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all some day. I think I shall write books,...” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“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
“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
“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
“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.” Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“He was part of my dream, of course—but then I was part of his dream, too!” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?” Edgar Rice Burroughs, Return of Tarzan
“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
“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
“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
“He never realized that people are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tales of the Jazz Age
“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
“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
“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
“Our dreams prove that to imagine . . . is among mankind's deepest needs.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“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
“Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“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
“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
“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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