„All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.“

— Edgar Allan Poe

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„O God! Can I not saveOne from the pitiless wave?Is all that we see or seemBut a dream within a dream?“
— Edgar Allan Poe
„We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.“
— Anaïs Nin
„We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.“
— Roald Dahl
„During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.“
— Zhuangzi
„But what, Phaedrus, is the contrary of a dream if not some other dream?… A dream of vigilance and tension dreamt by Reason herself!—And what would such a Reason dream?—If a Reason were to dream—a Reason hard, erect, eyes armed, mouth closed, as though mistress of her lips—would not the dream she dreamt be what we see now—this world of exact forces and studied illusions?—A dream, a dream, but a dream interpenetrated with symmetries, all order, acts and sequences!“
— Paul Valéry
„I dream of wanting — and all I want seems to me worthless.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„A thousand Dreams within me softly burn“
— Arthur Rimbaud