Dreams Quotes

Not just nighttime visions, but the ambitions that drive us to build something extraordinary.

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"To dream is to live; to live without dreams is merely to exist."
Don Quixote
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"The greatest tragedy is unlived potential."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Dreams are the language of the divine."
Abbé Faria
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"I want to know life and its secrets while there is still time."
Anna Karenina
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"In our dreams we are true to ourselves."
Anna Karenina
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Edmond Dantès
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"She was haunted by the ghost of who she could have been"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"All dreams are made of small, significant moments strung together."
Natasha Rostova
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"Dreams are the realm where reality has no dominion."
Don Quixote
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"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Dreams sustained me when reality would have broken me."
Edmond Dantès
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"She dreamed of everything except the reality she lived."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She had painted her dreams in colors that could never match reality."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She yearned for a life of elegance and distinction."
Emma Bovary
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"She died as she lived—in pursuit of an impossible dream."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"What is a woman without dreams? Everything. What is she with them? Nothing."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Dreams are the faithful interpreters of our inclinations"
Don Quixote
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"She had read Paul and Virginia, and she had dreamed of the bamboo cottage."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."
Nick Carraway
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"The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself."
Nick Carraway
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"Why of course you can!"
Jay Gatsby
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"I wanted to grow up and be a lawyer."
Scout Finch
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"Dreams are cruel creditors that demand payment in reality"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."
Nick Carraway
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"The colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever."
Nick Carraway
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"He had come a long way and his dream seemed to be in sight."
Nick Carraway
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"We must all be dreamers in this life."
Jay Gatsby
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"I believe the unconscious dreams of every Russian are about beauty and justice."
Dmitri Karamazov
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"Her dreams were more real to her than the world around her"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She believed in grand passions and impossible dreams"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)