1012 – “Mas, sea verdad o sueño, obrar bien es lo que importa. Si fuere verdad, por serlo; si no, por ganar amigos para cuando despertemos.”

“But whether it be truth or dream, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth’s sake. If not, then to gain friends for when we awaken.”

-Segismundo in Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s play La vida es sueño

764 – 「 假作真时真亦假，无为有处有还无。」

“Jiǎ zuò zhēn shí zhēn yì jiǎ, wú wéi yǒu chù yǒu huan wú.”

“Truth becomes fiction when the fiction’s true; real becomes not-real when the unreal’s real.”

–Cáo Xuěqín 「」

509 – “Between soul and sacrifice beats the heart of civilization.”

–Heveena, under the pseudonym Gondus Elden

171 – “Of course it is happening inside your head…but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

– Albus Dumbledore in J K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows