„Most people are even less original in their dreaming than in their waking life; their dreams are more monotonous than their thoughts and oddly enough, more literary.“

— W. H. Auden

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„Because of the way that myth takes it for granted that miracles are always happening, the waking life of a mythically inspired people — the ancient Greeks, for instance — more closely resembles a dream than it does the waking world of a scientifically disenchanted thinker.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.“
— René Magritte
„We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
„Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more than anything, more than life itself, they even do it with movies these days.“
— Stephen Fry