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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake
Like all dreamers, I confuse disenchantment with truth
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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