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Vision without execution is just hallucination.

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day!The frontier town and citadel of night!The watershed of Time,...

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Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Always having what we wantmay not be the best good fortuneHealth seems sweetestafter sickness, foodi...

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Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a fe...

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Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a fe...

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Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, ...

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What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imag...

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And while he compared all these things which he was seeing with his eyes to the mental pictures he h...

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Hermann HesseStrange News from Another Star

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. F...

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Poverty has in its favour an exquisite sleep filled with beautiful dreams.

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of l...

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Yes of course I know it's all a dream. Isn't everything?

...for all its apparent speed, the ship was almost perfectly silent, and he experienced an enervatin...

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You are about to awake when you dream that you are dreaming.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had be...

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The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly t...

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Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.

To fall asleep like a bird. To have a wing you could stick your head under, aworld of branches suspe...

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But what is this clock, marking only so many years, that such men seem to consult in the dark of the...

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What appears to be definite and precise does not belong to any acceptable reality. It is only the ex...

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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in...

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Anything is possible if you've got enough nerve

By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

I had a dream about a motorcycle," said Harry, remembering suddenly. "It was flying."Uncle Vernon ne...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Well here we are, just the four of us that started out together,' said Merry. 'We have left all the ...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Return of the King

And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain F...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Return of the King

The grey-rain curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and...

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Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect...

Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect...

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

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Jack Johnson (boxer)Jack Johnson - On and on

Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect...

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

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Jack Johnson (boxer)Jack Johnson - On and on

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

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Jack Johnson (boxer)Jack Johnson - On and on

Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect...

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

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Jack Johnson (boxer)Jack Johnson - On and on

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

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Jack Johnson (musician)Jack Johnson - On and on

Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect...

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

Picture of Jack Johnson (musician)
Jack Johnson (musician)Jack Johnson - On and on

Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect...

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

Picture of Jack Johnson (musician)
Jack Johnson (musician)Jack Johnson - On and on

Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect...

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

Picture of Jack Johnson (musician)
Jack Johnson (musician)Jack Johnson - On and on

I have such a hopeless dream of walking or being there at night, nothing happens, I just pass, every...

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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

And I dreamed of a home long ago in New England, my little kitkats trying to go a thousand miles fol...

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As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dre...

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What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that wa...

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What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope ...

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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams.

I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't i...

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I'm dreaming of sleeping next to you and feeling like a lost little boy in a brand new town I'm coun...

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It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s im...

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You are the stuff of which consumer profiles – American Dream: Educated Middle-Class Model – are mad...

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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree...

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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning...

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Jeanette WintersonThe World and Other Places: Stories

The day has been so full of fret and care, and our hearts have been so full of evil and of bitter th...

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Jerome K. JeromeThree Men in a Boat

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determin...

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I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see ...

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Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usu...

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Love is a dream. Dreams are good, but do not be surprised if you wake up in tears.

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they ...

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Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan.

And the pebbles fight each other as rocks/And my father bends among them/Two hands outstretching up ...

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Joe StrummerRock Art & the X-Ray Style

Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at hi...

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Still the dream persists, suppressed but always there, that somehow by some miraculous effort of the...

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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialis...

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I dream that someone in space says to me: So let us rush, then, to see the world. It is shaped like ...

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John CheeverThe Journals of John Cheever

I dream dark dreams. I dream of a figure moving through the forest, of children flying from his path...

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Seen from inside the bar, the avenue, the stores opposite, the street glimpsed going off at right an...

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John CrowleyAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, becaus...

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The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the t...

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I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with August...

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I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occured to me that the ...

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The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited...

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O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, Would all their colours from the sunset take.

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John KeatsThe Complete Poems

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world wi...

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I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all ex...

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Imagine there's no countriesIt isn't hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine ...

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A morning later, Nancy described her first dream, the first remembered dream of her life. She and Ju...

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Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in your...

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It is easy when you are young to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to a...

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But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about...

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Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality...

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Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into realit...

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There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a re...

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My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals desc...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The only thing worse than not having your dream come true is having it come true for a little while.

The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses...

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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and s...

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We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

The three of them knew it. She was Kafka’s mistress. Kafka had dreamt her. The three of them knew it...

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It must be that I am not made to be a dead man, but these places and this discussion seem like a dre...

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