“You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
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Haruki Murakami655
Japanese author, novelist 1949Related quotes
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“I see nightmares when I sleep and I dream about you when I'm awake.”
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“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.”
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Source: The Winter of Our Discontent