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“Even sleepers and dreamers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the universe.” Heraclitus, “On Nature” - c. 535 – c. 475 BCE

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“Dreams, then, are often most profound when they seem most crazy.” Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams” - 1899

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” William Shakespeare, “The Tempest” - 1623

“Even in dreams, you could not fall forever.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“But America is too great for small dreams.” Ronald Reagan, “State of the Union Address” - 25 January 1984

“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.” Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams” - 1899

“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the gods, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“The biggest thrill you can ever achieve is to live the life of your dreams.” Oprah Winfrey, “What I Know For Sure” - 2014

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” - 1997

“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors and hereafter she may suffer, both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“That it is no great matter, whether I remove his scruple or no: where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.” John Locke, “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” - 1689

“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“Even if a dream of different content had the significance of this offence against majesty, it would still have been in place to remember the words of Plato, that the virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in...” Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams” - 1899

“Dreams are never concerned with trivialities; we do not allow our sleep to be disturbed by trifles.” Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams” - 1899

“We are thus presented with a new task which had no previous existence: the task, that is, of investigating the relations between the manifest content of dreams and the latent dream-thoughts, and of tracing out the processes by which the latter...” Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams” - 1899

“I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.” Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” - 1847

“I didn’t have any of these dreams or thoughts but I was going to acquire them.” Bob Dylan, “Chronicles, Volume One” - 2004

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” Oscar Wilde, “Intentions” - 1891

“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“If we shadows have offended, think but this,—and all is mended,— that you have but slumber'd here while these visions did appear.” William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night's Dream” - 1601

“action . . . is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.” Oscar Wilde, “Intentions” - 1891

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