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Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.


Siri Hustvedt

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SARAH PERE Every Person wishes to stay happy, to flourish
And live enough to see his dreams come true.
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ELEVENTH DOCTOR The dreamer can never be separated from his dreaming adventures,because there is nothing that will m...
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The logic in th...
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ESTEE TASCHEREAU I'm a realist by day, a dreamer by night.
AERIAL NICOLE MITCHELL A Dreamer fails multiple times. A failure fails only once.
MANOJ ARORA A dreamer lives for eternity.
ANONYMOUS The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it
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MARK GORMAN Dreamer.
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BRANDON SANDERSON A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.
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HOCKSON FLOIN Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proport...
MARGARET FULLER Behold, this dreamer cometh.
BIBLE Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!
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Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it.
That moment the dre...
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If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
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HERMANN HESSE A dreamer will not stop having that dream until it has been fulfilled
J. WILSON And lilies white, prepared to touch The whitest thought, nor soil it much, Of dreamer turned t...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING To put a dreamer in their place isn’t dreaming.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA In his youth, every man is a dreamer. But then he finally gets sleepy.
DIRCEU ALVES FERREIRA The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
OSCAR WILDE The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action
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If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-e...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN To every dreamer, you direct the light of all the world!
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
MARK TWAIN

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