“Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams.”

— P. C. Cast , book Hunted

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Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author

Source: Full Moon

“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface.”

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer

Variant: Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

“Often, moreover, it is… that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“The point is, is that the aim of our work must be not to just have a few do well, but to have everybody have a chance, everybody who is willing to work for it have the ability to dream big and then reach those dreams.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

2015, Address to the People of India (January 2015)

“Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?”

Lisa See book Peony in Love

Source: Peony in Love

“dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Source: Legacy of Lies & Don't Tell

“We should train our desires to show the way to our dreams.”

Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 103

“…there are always three elements [of psychoanalysis] at work: the manifest dream-text, the latent dream-content or thought and the unconscious desire articulated in the dream. This desire attaches itself to the dream, it interlaces itself in the interspace between the latent thought and the manifest text; it is therefore not 'more concealed, deeper' in relation to the latent thought, it is decidedly more 'on the surface,' consisting entirely of the signifier's mechanisms, of the treatment to which the latent content is submitted.”

Slavoj Žižek book The Sublime Object of Ideology

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The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”

Italo Calvino book Invisible Cities

Page 44.
Source: Invisible Cities (1972)
Context: With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

“She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.”

Isabel Allende book Eva Luna

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“Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams.”

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