Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Practical dreamers do not quit.
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
Dreamers don't have special genes. They find circumstances that amplify their dreams.
The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.
When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.
Man the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams!
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
"Dreaming is the vehicle that brings dreamers to this world," the emissary said, "and everything sorcerers know about dreaming was taught to them by us. Our world is connected to yours by a door called dreams. We know how to go through that door, but men don't. They have to learn it."
Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times... I learned very early in life that "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song." So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.
The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.
You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.
You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.
In a dream you are never eighty.
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