Fernando Pessoa
Poet, Writer
"I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up."
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Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life."
Margaret Fuller
Transcendentalist, Writer
"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking."
Rene Descartes
Philosopher, Mathematician
"But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep, that I feel greatly astonished; and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming."
Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more."
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"If you're just addressing your own emotions and challenging yourself to find some sort of harmonious sense of being in life and questioning authority and questioning what's given and questioning what's expected of you, you're already on the cusp of finding something in yourself, and maybe waking something in somebody else."
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"Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking."
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"We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep."
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"Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles."
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"Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight."
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"By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."
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"Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is."
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"No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day."
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"There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease."
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"Looking at her is like waking up."
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"Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep."
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"All my life I've been pleasin' everyone but me, waking up in someone else's dream."
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"Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better."
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"Age is nothing; waking up is everything."
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"A corpse is what's left after waking too often."
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"I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head."
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"Hustle is waking up the day before you die and realising you gave it your all."
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"Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen."
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"You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence."
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"I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare."
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