Anaïs Nin - Dream Quotes

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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.

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Most fiction writers uses dreams decoratively without relating them to daily life, but the contemporary writer is becoming more expert at detecting the influence of one upon the other.

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Throw your dream into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country.

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This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.

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It was a misunderstanding to stress the dream like quality of the novels. What I meant to stress was the interrelation between dream and life, between dream and action.

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The dream, scrutinized by scientists in various experiments, has been found to be an absolute necessity to man.

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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment with it, that was the miracle.

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In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.

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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

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