Diane Ackerman book A Natural History of the Senses
Source: A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Chapter 3 “Taste” (p. 130)
“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
Speech at the Democratic National Convention (26 August 1996) http://www.chrisreevehomepage.com/sp-dnc1996.html
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“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
Edgar Allan Poe book A Dream Within a Dream
"A Dream Within a Dream" (1849).
Context: You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
D 6
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook D (1773-1775)
“When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.”
Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”
Tennessee Williams Camino Real
Don Quixote in Prologue
Variant: When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Source: Camino Real (1953)