“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
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“There is only one dream worth having…to live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead.”
From a speech entitled Come September http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/politics/comeSeptember.pdf.
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“When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it?”
Source: What Dreams May Come: A Novel

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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)

“… imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.”
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