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Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafÃ©s in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras played Hungarian waltzes and the air was thick and exotic with intrigue and moonlight and adventure. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. -- Carl Jung
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. -- Henry David Thoreau
A dream project is anything I do when I'm awake. -- Charles Fleischer
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true. -- Lorenz Hart
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us. -- Jane Roberts
It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true. -- Roger Babson
I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep. -- Stan Laurel
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? -- Leonardo da Vinci
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. -- George Santayana
I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women. -- Cary Elwes
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. -- Rene Descartes
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. -- Carl Jung
Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself. -- Gustave Meyrink
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. -- Haruki Murakami
For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life. -- Haruki Murakami
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. -- Erich Fromm
In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening. -- Stephen LaBerge
As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change. -- Haruki Murakami
Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue. -- Haruki Murakami
We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake. -- Caryl Churchill
What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake? -- Jonathan Safran Foer
You are asleep and have forgetten that you are dreaming. You mistakenly believe you are awake. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake. -- Bertrand Russell
But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished." -the Lady Amalthea, from The Last Unicorn -- Peter S. Beagle
When I wasn't lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I was dreaming restless dreams about it. -- Smoky Joe Wood
We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real. -- Ruth Rendell
A lot of our young people are sleep-walking, dreaming that they're awake, and lots of aspects of society initially go about keeping it so. -- Lorraine Toussaint
Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams. -- Gustave Flaubert
You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll be waiting. -- James M. Barrie
It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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