„Oh, everyone laughs in my face now, and assures me that one cannot dream of such details as I am telling now“

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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„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
„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
„You used to call me your dreamer,And now I'm living out my dreams;Oh, how I wish you could see,Everything that's happening for me.“
— Miley Cyrus
„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
„I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„Today, I went to sleep under a plum tree. There, I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying so pleasently. Then, I fell asleep, and the dream ended. Now- I have to ask myself - am I Zhuang Zi who dreamed of a butterfly? Or am I that butterfly, dreaming I am Zhuang Zi?“
— Zhuangzi