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All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Poe, Edgar Allan. "A Dream Within a Dream." The Flag of Our Union, 31 March 1849, I. 10.

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Poe, Edgar Allan. "A Dream Within a Dream." Edgar Allen Poe: Poetry and Tales, edited by Patrick Quinn. Library of America, 1984, l. 10.

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We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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O'Shaughnessy, Arthur. "Ode." Music and Moonlight: Poems and Songs. London Chatto and Windus, 1874.

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What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore -
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over -
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes

Harlem

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Hughes, Langston. "Harlem." Montage of a Dream Deferred. Holt, 1951.

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The stuff that dreams are made of.

Samuel Spade

The Maltese Falcon

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The Maltese Falcon. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros., 1941.

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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Sigmund Freud

The Interpretation of Dreams

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Freud, Sigmund. Die Traumdeutung [The Interpretation of Dreams]. Leipzig und Wien: Franz Deuticke, 1900, ch. 7, sect. E.

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Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams, translated and edited by James Strachey. Basic Books, 2010, ch. 7, sect. E.

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Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

Dreams

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Hughes, Langston. “Dreams.” The World Tomorrow, May 1923, I. 1.

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Hughes, Langston. “Dreams.” The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on Art, Race, Politics, and World Affairs. Vol. 9, University of Missouri Press, 2001.

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My dream is to become hopeless.

George Costanza

Seinfeld

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"The Fix Up." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Elaine Pope, directed by Tom Cherones, season 3, episode 16, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1992.

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If you're happy in a dream... does that count?

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

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Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 11.

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All I do is dream of you the whole night through.

Singin' in the Rain

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"All I Do Is Dream of You." Singin' in the Rain. Directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, performed by Debbie Reynolds, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1952.

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The sleep of reason produces monsters.

Francisco Goya

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Goya, Francisco. Los Caprichos. 1799, plate 43, title.

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Goya, Francisco. Los Caprichos. Dover Publications, 1969, plate 43, title.

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I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W.B. Yeats

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Yeats, William Butler. "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven." The Wind Among Reeds. New York and London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1899.

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Yeats, William Butler. "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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All men whilst they are awake are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Heraclitus

Quoted in Moralia, by Plutarch

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Plutarch. "Περὶ δεισιδαιμονίας [On Superstition]." Moralia [Ἠθικά]. c. 100 AD.

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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937, ch. 1.

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But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.

Dead Poets Society

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Dead Poets Society. Directed by Peter Weir, Touchstone Pictures/Silver Screen Partners IV, 1989.

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I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.
I woke-and found that life was duty.

Ellen Sturgis Hooper

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Beauty and Duty

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Hooper, Ellen Sturgis. "I Slept, and Dreamed that Life was Beauty." The Dial, July 1840.

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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pan Books, 1979, ch. 1.

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Castles in the air-they are so easy to take refuge in. And easy to build, too.

Henrik Ibsen

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Ibsen, Henrik. Bygmester Solness [The Master Builder]. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1892, act 3.

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Ibsen, Henrik. "The Master Builder." The Master Builder and Other Plays, translated by Barbara Haveland and Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife. Penguin Classics, 2015, act 3.

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