Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
So rapid is the progress of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.[Tant les rêves marchent vite sur les ailes de l’imagination.]
People who say things like “May all your dreams come true” should try living in one for five minutes.
People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don’t dream at all.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Our dreams need time and physical means and painstaking thought before they can be realized.[Nos fantaisies veulent du temps, des moyens physiques ou des soins.]
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though, in truth, his dreaming must not be out of proportion to his waking!
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Once you have a dream you’ve got somewhere closer to a reality.
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one’s dreams. What else is one to do with them? Unless the content of the dream (rightly understood) is inspired by alien spirits, it is a part of my own being.[Selbstverständlich muß man sich für seine bösen Traumregungen verantwortlich halten. Was will man sonst mit ihnen machen? Wenn der – richtig verstandene – Trauminhalt nicht die Eingebung fremder Geister ist, so ist er ein Stück von meinem Wesen.]
O sleep, o gentle sleep, nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?
Nothing is as boring as other people’s dreams.
