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21 " In his mother’s honor, vowing not to commit the “fashionable stupidity” of ignoring things he didn’t understand, Max performed a brave act of nonconformity by accepting the possibility that his dreams might be exactly what they seemed: real. "
― Sol Luckman , Snooze: A Story of Awakening
22 " An entrepreneur is born, when a person has more reasons to drive his dreams against his excuses. "
― Sukant Ratnakar , Open the Windows
23 " He was looking for immensity. His life was hopelessly small, everything surrounding him was nondescript and gray. And death is absolute; it is indivisible and indissoluble. The presence of the girl was pathetic (a few caresses and a lot of meaningless words), but her absolute absence was infinitely grand; when he imagined a girl buried in a field, he suddenly discovered the nobility of pain and the grandeur of love. But it was not only the absolute but also bliss he was looking for in his dreams of death. "
― Milan Kundera
24 " When he finally fell asleep, his dreams contained no stories at all, but only the hard stones of thoughts: the unimaginably unlikely coincidence of being alive at the same time as the love of your life, the frequency with which a person was expected to bear the body and the burden of someone else, the idiocy of thinking that kindness can protect the person who is kind, and worst of all, the bottomless pit of a truth that he had suddenly, sickeningly seen: that the world to come that his parents had always talked about was not an afterlife at all, but simply this world, to come--the future world, your own future, that you were creating for yourself with every choice you made in it. "
― Dara Horn , The World to Come
25 " There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby
26 " When people speak of great men, they think of men like Napoleon - men of violence. Rarely do they think of peaceful men. But contrast the reception they will receive when they return home from their battles. Napoleon will arrive in pomp and in power, a man who's achieved the very summit of earthly ambition. And yet his dreams will be haunted by the oppressions of war. William Wilberforce, however, will return to his family, lay his head on his pillow and remember: the slave trade is no more. "
27 " ... he was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness." Damn it," he sighed. " How will I ever get out of this labyrinth! "
28 " The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it aside by day, but it poisoned his dreams by night, calling to him and pleading with him to unlock the chains he'd bound about it. "
― David Weber , Oath of Swords (War God, #1)
29 " He’d been trying to save this woman in his dreams for years. Now here she was, all grown up, and he still felt helpless. "
― B.J. Daniels , Cardwell Christmas Crime Scene
30 " No matter how much he denied his attraction to her, those red curls haunted his dreams like brilliant flames that couldn't be extinguished... " Fuirich air falbh on teine," he said under his breath, but loud enough for her to hear. Stay away from the fire. "
31 " The only time I get to be alone is while traveling." " Except this week," Charlie said.He turned his head and she saw herself reflected in his shades. " True. And you're not at all what I expected." Not that Connor had had any idea what to expect. But he would've preferred if she hadn't been the beautiful blonde who wore skimpy red bikini tops and starred in his dreams last night. "
32 " Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction -- Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn ... No -- Gatsby turned out all right in the end; it was what prayed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and the short-winded elations of men. "
33 " But life has a way of chopping people off at the knees, and he was no exception. Ten years of his life had been stolen from him. Now he wasn't wasting another minute. He wanted to experience everything he had missed, to eat and drink and read and work and fuck as he pleased. His dreams were smaller now, but they were still dreams, and he was going after them with everything he had. "
34 " Know that whatever God prays toHe asked it to help Him make something of worth.He woke from His dreams scraped the soil from the spaces inside Himself made you and was happy.You make the Lord happy. "
― Anis Mojgani
35 " A dreamer is a gifted man ,who, plucks out his dreams of sparkling stars. "
36 " Flying in his dreams was an exhilarating, breathtaking experience, sometimes literally, that tended to leave reality wanting, like riding a roller coaster compared to mowing the lawn. "
37 " The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. "
― Kahlil Gibran
38 " If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up. "
― Habeeb Akande
39 " Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems. "
― Sherman Alexie , Reservation Blues
40 " But despite such energetic mental exercise, the ghosts of time present would intrude and drive his dreams away. It was Ann who had robbed him of his peace, Ann who had once made the present so important and taught him the habit of reality, and when she went there was nothing. "
― John le Carré , Call for the Dead (George Smiley #1)