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John Lennon Musician, Activist
Awake

"You're only awake when you realise you're awake and when you're dreaming, it is just as real, whatever happens is just as real - whether you actually do die in a dream or fulfil whatever you're doing in a dream, it's, there's nobody to tell me it isn't as real as this now, because how do you know?"

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Robert Adams Photographer
Awake

"You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time."

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Fernando Pessoa Poet, Writer
Awake

"If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings"

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