#awake

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #awake #because #change #continue

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it. ↗

— Robert Musil

#deny #more #nothing #perverse #possibilities

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them. ↗

— Robert Musil

#actuality #along #always #average #awakens

All human males were as fascinated with cars as they were with breasts. ↗

— Anita Clenney

#awaken-the-highland-warrior #breasts #bree #cars #faelan

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. ↗

— Patricia Neal

#expectations #expects #master #own #teacher

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#art #awake #day #mean #must

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#funny #i #lie #night #nixon

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief. ↗

— Charles Olson

#been #belief #country #got #unconscious

Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#days #hell #keeps #lot #me

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. ↗

— Walter Pater

#awakening #beautiful #beauty #book #confessions