#dream

...our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#dreams

Calvino remembered he had no food in the house and would have to go shopping on Sukhumvit Road. Then he planned to crawl into his bed and sleep, the kind of deep sleep without dreams or hopes, a sleep without regrets, without knowing or thinking how things got the way they are or how occasional fragments of decency escaped the forces of gravity. ↗

— Christopher G. Moore - Zero Hour in Phnom Penh

#noir-fiction #dreams

I'd been so fascinated by the motion that I'd forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth. I'd been asleep, dreaming. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#dreams #sleep #dreams

It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe. Perhaps because the entire world continues to dream of New York, even as New York dominates and exploits it. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#new-york #postmodern #power #dreams

If only I was capable of love, how I would have loved Harry. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#dreams

A dream is only as powerful as the dreamer. ↗

— Bianca Frazier

#dream #dreamer #dreams

Girls were like aliens, and as far as he was concerned, Ridley was their queen. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#dream-dark #linkubus #ridley #dreams

Anything you can do, or dream you do, begin it: boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. ↗