“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”

— Jean Genet

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French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist 1910–1986

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: One Last Thing Before I Go

“How tell what remains? But it’s the end. Or have I been dreaming, am I dreaming? No no, none of that, for dream is nothing, a joke, and significant what is worse.”

Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish novelist, playwright, and poet

The Calmative (1946)

“If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame, which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne book Fanshawe

"Fanshawe" (1828)

“It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.”

Man Ray (1890–1976) American artist and photographer

Julien Levy exhibition catalog (April 1945)

“Never allow your memories to be better than your dreams.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Non permettere mai ai tuoi ricordi di essere migliori dei tuoi sogni.
Source: prevale.net

“All our dreams begin in youth.”

Heinrich Harrer book Seven Years in Tibet

Source: Seven Years in Tibet

“A dream, a dream, — it is all a dream,
A strange, sad dream, good sooth;
For old as I am, and old as I seem,
My heart is full of youth.”

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) English writer and poet

The Song of Seventy.
A Thousand Lines (1846)

“If (Mainland) China's dream is a dream of democracy, Taiwan will provide all needed assistance in the process of realizing that dream.”

Tsai Ing-wen (1956) President of the Republic of China

Liu Xiaobo's dream should be China's dream: Taiwan's Tsai, Focus Taiwan, 1, July 13, 2017, 14 July 2017 http://focustaiwan.tw/news/acs/201707130028.aspx,

“Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Swenson, 1959, p. 21
1840s, Either/Or (1843)

“Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.”

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer

Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 79.

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”

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