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“The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.”
“All that I did," she said, "everything I tried to do. All for nothing." Nothing is done entirely for nothing, said the fox of dreams. Nothing is wasted. You are older, and you have made decisions, ...”
“All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I'm convinced I could do it better. ...”
“In dreams begins responsiblities.”
“She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if...”
“Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of ...”
“Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams,...”
“Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!”
“Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.”
“The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.”
“Its very hard to have ideas. Its very hard to put yourself out there, its very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magi...”
“I think that love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time, and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last.... I...”
“All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.”
“Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.”
“Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.”
“It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.”
“I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the slee...”
“I crave the sweet surrender of sleep and my dreams' uncensored communication: no tiresome small talk, sucking up to impress, or tiptoeing around charged topics. Dreams are the naked truth; get read...”
“Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.”
“Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night.”
