„It was a misunderstanding to stress the dream like quality of the novels. What I meant to stress was the interrelation between dream and life, between dream and action.“

— Anaïs Nin

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„A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts. But really a novel goes as dreams go in sleeping at night and some dreams are like anything and some dreams are like something and some dreams change and some dreams are quiet and some dreams are not. And some dreams are just what any one would do only a little different always just a little different and that is what a novel is.“
— Gertrude Stein
„You're something between a dream and a miracle.“
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
„A dream! What is a dream? And is not our life a dream?“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?… A plan.“
— Jodi Picoult
„Let it be a dream, so be it, but that real life of which you make so much I had meant to extinguish by suicide, and my dream, my dream — oh, it revealed to me a different life, renewed, grand and full of power!“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.“
— T.S. Eliot
„Life is not, and death is a dream. Suffering has invented them both as self-justification. Man alone is torn between an unreality and an illusion.“
— Emil M. Cioran