„I know nothing, I am neither woman nor girl; I have been living in a dream and when someone kissed me, it made me want to laugh. Now I am here before you, it seems as though I have just awakened and it is morning.“

— Jean Paul Sartre

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„Oh, everyone laughs in my face now, and assures me that one cannot dream of such details as I am telling now“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.“
— Jane Austen
„Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.“
— Zhuangzi
„When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.“
— Gertrude Stein
„I was the walrus, but now I am John… and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.“
— John Lennon