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The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

Edward Kennedy

The woman of my dreams knows how to break into systems.

Doug Tygar

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Paul Gauguin
French Post-Impressionist painter (1848 - 1903)

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Paul Gauguin
French Post-Impressionist painter (1848 - 1903)

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

Homer, The Odyssey
Greek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC)

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC)

A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC)

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
Italian novelist & semiotician (1932 - )

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality
Italian novelist & semiotician (1932 - )

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.

J. M. Power

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.

Barry Lopez

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Christopher Reeve, From speech at Democratic National Convention, August 1996

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich von Schiller
German dramatist & poet (1759 - 1805)

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Susan Sontag
US author & critic (1933 - )

Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.

Alexander Senturia

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

Henry David Thoreau
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

Carl Jung
Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)

I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

Michel de Montaigne
French essayist (1533 - 1592)

And dreams in their development have breath,
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;
They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts,
They take a weight from off our waking toils,
They do divide our being.

Lord Byron
English poet & satirist (1788 - 1824)

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