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- A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man.
- Unknown
- The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
- I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
- Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
- Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- I know a mother-in-law who sleeps with her glasses on, the better to see her son-in-law suffer in her dreams.
- Ernest Coquelin
- Sometimes in my dreams there are women...When such dreams happen, immediately I remember, 'I am a monk.'...It is very important to analyze 'What is the real benefit of sexual desire?' The appearance of a beautiful face or a beautiful body - as many scriptures describe - no matter how beautiful, they essentially decompose into a skeleton. When we penetrate to its human flesh and bones, there is no beauty, is there? A couple in a sexual experience is happy for that moment. Then very soon trouble begins.
- The Dalai Lama (1935 - )
- Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- You have dreamed too well, O wise archdreamer, for you have drawn dream's gods away from the world of all men's vision to that which is wholly yours,...
- H.P. Lovecraft
- ...all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and (there is) no cause to value one above the other."
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
- Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
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