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Quotes About Dreams

Lo injusta que es a veces la suerte con los artistas que sueñan con encontrar el Paraíso en este terrenal valle de lágrimas.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Yo también creía que por París uno podía hacer todos los sacrificios.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Il n'y a rien de mieux qu'un roman pour faire comprendre que la réalité est mal faite, qu'elle n'est pas suffisante pour satisfaire les désirs, les appétits, les rêves humains.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Inventamos las ficciones para poder vivir de alguna manera las muchas vidas que quisiéramos tener cuando apenas disponemos de una sola.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Las referencias feroces, aunque vagas, que escuchaba en boca de los cadetes, estimulaban su imaginación. En sueños, el nombre se presentaba dotado de atributos carnales, extraños y contradictorios, la mujer era siempre la misma y distinta, una presencia que se desvanecía cuando iba a tocarla o lo sumía en una ternura infinita y entonces creía morir de impaciencia.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
This way of 'choosing to be an an artist' seems lost for ever to today's impatient and cynical youth, who dream of seizing glory any way they ca, even if to reach it they must climb a mountain of pachydermatous shit.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Le raccontai tutta la mia vita, non quella passata ma quella che avrei vissuto in futuro.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Alberto soñaba sin cerrar los ojos. Habían bastado apenas unos segundos para que el mundo que abandonó le abriera sus puertas y lo recibiera otra vez en su seno sin tomarle cuentas, como si el lugar que ocupaba entre ellos le hubiera sido celosamente guardado durante esos tres años. Había recuperado su porvenir
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
What is love? she asked... It is a perpetual longing for someone that gets into your blood. That someone lives inside your head, haunting you, filling your soul with dreams-dreams that could well turn to tragedy were they never to be fulfilled, he reaplied...
~ Marion Chesney
A felicidade e os sonhos acabavam de ganhar nova vida. Enquanto houvesse um homem por perto, havia esperança.
~ Marion Chesney
In the absence of role models for the new feminine in our culture, the Goddess speaks through dreams and creative imagination, giving guidance to those who chose to listen.
~ Marion Woodman
Don't ask for the moon -- we have the stars! Pardon my saying so, but fuck the fucking stars!
~ Marisa de los Santos
Is man's destiny determined by the vicissitudes of environment or free will? I argue that it is free will, because what we think, what we dwell upon in our heads, whether it be fears or dreams, has a direct effect upon the physical world. The more you think about your downfall, your ruin, the greater the likelihood that it will occur. And conversely, the more one thinks of victory, the more likely one will achieve it.
~ Marisha Pessl
Que sont les fantasmes ? Des rêves dont nous nous servons pour nous préserver de la réalité. Notre monde est un plancher rigide qui nous casse le dos si on dort à même le sol.
~ Marisha Pessl
What sets lion chasers apart isn't the outcome. It's the courage to chase God-sized dreams.
~ Mark Batterson
He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and I couldn't take orders. Also I didn't have 20/20 vision, which you needed to be a pilot. But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.
~ Mark Haddon
I used to have dreams that everything would get better. Do you remember, you used to say that you wanted to be an astranaut? Well, I used to have dreams where you were an astranaut and you were on the television and I thought that's my son.
~ Mark Haddon
And he was seldom out of sight of the new bridges, which had married beautiful womanly Brooklyn to her rich uncle, Manhattan; had put the city's hand out to the country; and were the end of the past because they spanned not only distance and deep water but dreams and time.
~ Mark Helprin
I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.
~ Mark Helprin
He had known in times of the greatest misery or danger that his dreams of home, in which all things seemed beautiful, were in essence his longing for the woman for whom he had been made. That was how, as a soldier, he had seen it, and it was how he had come through.
~ Mark Helprin
I wish that, like you, I could have spent my life transported aloft, as it were, every day, in music. Instead, I've lived like a caffeinated parrot.
~ Mark Helprin
And he was seldom out of sight of the new bridges, which had married beautiful womanly Brooklyn to her rich uncle, Manhattan; had put the city's hand out to the country; and were the end of the past because they spanned not only distance and deep water but dreams and time. The
~ Mark Helprin
You're crazy, Ludovico announced. Alessandro held his finger in the air. Ah! he said, but at least I'm able to tell you my last name, and at least, when they take me out to the stake my dreams may be just beginning, whereas yours, by your own definition, must and will come to a dark end. You fool yourself. Your illusions will fall away even before the end. They won't do you any good. You'll see.
~ Mark Helprin