#dream

Laser technology has fulfilled our people's ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive until he moves and cleaves. Until we move, none of us can be sure that we have not already been cut in half, or in many pieces, by a blade of light. It is safest to assume that our throats have already been slit, that the slightest alteration in our postures will cause the painless severance of our heads. ↗

— Ben Lerner

#dreams

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#being #coward #dreams #else #everybody

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking. ↗

— Black Elk

#sometimes #than #waking #wiser

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me. ↗

— Black Elk

#come #did #dreamed #duty #even