Dreams

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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found the flower in his hand when he awoke-Aye! and what then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Dreams Heaven

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

Anima Poetae

Medium

Personal journal

Statement Type

Hypothetical situations

Language

English

Time

1816 1810s 19th century

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Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Notebook entry. c. 1816.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike

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Dreams

Author

John Updike

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Updike, John. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs. Knopf, 1989, ch. 3.

A dream, too, is from Zeus.

Homer

The Iliad

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Dreams

Author

Homer

Source

The Iliad

Medium

Poem

Genre

Epic poem

Language

Greek

Time

700 BC 700s BC 8th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Homer. Ἰλιάς [The Iliad], edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles. Florence: Bernardus Nerlius and Demetrius Damilas, 1489, bk. 1, l. 63.

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Homer. The Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Oxford University Press, 2014, bk. 1, l. 63.

Dreams are a second life. I have never been able to cross through those gates of ivory or horn which separate us from the invisible world without a sense of dread.

Gerard de Nerval

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Dreams

Author

Gerard de Nerval

Source

Aurelia

Language

French

Time

1855 1850s 19th century

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Citation

Nerval, Gerard. Aurelia ou le reve et la vie [Aurelia or the Dream and the Life]. Paris: Theophile Gautier and Arsene Houssaye, 1855, pt. 1.

Life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Les Miserables

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Topic

Broken dreams Dreams Adversity Challenges of life

Speaker

Fantine

Actor

Anne Hathaway

Source

I Dreamed a Dream Les Miserables

Medium

Song Film

Genre

Musical (film) Epic (film) Musical Epic

Language

English

Time

2012 2010s 21st century

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Citation

"I Dreamed a Dream." Les Misérables. Directed by Tom Hooper, performed by Anne Hathaway, Cameron Mackintosh Ltd/Working Title Films, 2012.

No dream is ever just a dream.

Eyes Wide Shut

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Topic

Nature of dreams Dreams

Speaker

Dr. Wiliam Harford

Actor

Tom Cruise

Source

Eyes Wide Shut

Medium

Film

Genre

Psychological (film) Drama (film) Psychological Drama

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Eyes Wide Shut. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick Productions/Pole Star Hobby Films, 1999.

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true,
Or is it something worse?

Bruce Springsteen

The River

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Topic

Broken dreams Dreams

Speaker

Bruce Springsteen

Source

The River

Medium

Song

Genre

Rock music

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Springsteen, Bruce. "The River." The River. Columbia Records, 1980.

You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

Inception

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Topic

Thinking big Dreams

Speaker

Eames

Actor

Tom Hardy

Source

Inception

Medium

Film

Genre

Science fiction (film) Action (film) Science fiction Action

Language

English

Time

2010 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Inception. Directed by Christopher Nolan, Warner Bros. Pictures/Legendary Pictures/Syncopy, 2010.

The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you they are not big enough.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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Topic

Thinking big Goals Dreams

Speaker

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Source

2011 Harvard commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson. Commencement speech. Commencement cermony. 26 May 2011, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Wide and undetermined Prospects are as pleasing to the Fancy, as the Speculations of Eternity or Infinitude are to the Understanding.

Joseph Addison

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Topic

Contemplation Dreams

Author

Joseph Addison

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1712 1710s 18th century

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Addison, Joseph. "Monday, June 23, 1712." The Spectator, 1712, no. 412.

If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed... There would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.

Vera Caspary

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Topic

Inner life Dreams

Author

Vera Caspary

Source

Laura

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Caspary, Vera. Laura. Houghton Mifflin, 1943, ch. 2. Originally published in Colliers, Oct. 1942 - Nov. 1942.