If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
JIM CARREY
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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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Joseph ConradJoseph Conrad All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
John DonneJohn Donne Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
Joseph ConradJoseph Conrad I want to spend the rest of my dreams with you.
Lauren EdenLauren Eden So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
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