Dreams Quotes

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

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"She could not live in the world as it was, only as she dreamed it"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The gap between her dreams and reality grew wider each day"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"I could never become anything but a dreamer."
Raskolnikov
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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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"A life without purpose is a life half-lived."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"Dreams are the only thing that can move a man to action."
Cosette
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"Desire, always desire!"
Emma Bovary
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"Reality could never match her dreams."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Life requires an aim."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"She dreamed of distant lands where passion knew no bounds."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She had thrown away everything for a moment of ecstasy."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The ordinary world could never contain her extraordinary desires."
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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"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!"
Jay Gatsby
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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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"I am still the dreamer of dreams."
Jay Gatsby
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"He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close."
Nick Carraway
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"Dreams are the only escape from this miserable existence."
Emma Bovary
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"She purchased dreams at the cost of her soul."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She exhausted herself chasing phantoms."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!"
Jay Gatsby
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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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"Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short winded elations of men."
Nick Carraway
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"To dream is to be alive; to wake is to suffer."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!"
Jay Gatsby
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"There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams."
Nick Carraway
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"Dreams sustain us through our darkest hours."
Edmond Dantès
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"Dreams sustained me through the darkness of my prison."
Edmond Dantès
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"She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The world had no place for dreamers like her."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)