“Let me have my dreams but not what I dream of.”
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Source: The Lost Hero
“Let me have my dreams but not what I dream of.”
#197
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
U Got the Look
Song lyrics, Sign O' the Times (1987)
“And oh my dreams
It's never quite as it seems
'Cause you're a dream to me
Dream to me.”
"Dreams"
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1993)
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!
The Inferno (1917), Ch. XVI
Context: I went out on the street like an exile, I who am an everyday man, who resemble everybody else so much, too much. I went through the streets and crossed the squares with my eyes fixed upon things without seeing them. I was walking, but I seemed to be falling from dream to dream, from desire to desire. A door ajar, an open window gave me a pang. A woman passing by grazed against me, a woman who told me nothing of what she might have told me. I dreamed of her tragedy and of mine. She entered a house, she disappeared, she was dead.