About, Pride Of The Nation: Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa
Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), II
Context: Yes, I dreamed a dream, my dream of the third of November. They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth? If once one has recognized the truth and seen it, you know that it is the truth and that there is no other and there cannot be, whether you are asleep or awake. Let it be a dream, so be it, but that real life of which you make so much I had meant to extinguish by suicide, and my dream, my dream — oh, it revealed to me a different life, renewed, grand and full of power!
“Today the dreams of the best sons of mankind have come true. The assault on space has begun.”
As quoted in 1957, Red Star in Orbit by James Oberg (1981)
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924)
“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
Source: The Lovely Bones
“My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself!”
Eryximachus, p. 27
L'Âme et la danse (1921)
[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 302]
