“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
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804 – “We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges into a golden bath, our sentiments take on color; and only then, after that recoil and that trans-figuration, do we understand their real meaning and enjoy them in all their tranquil splendor.”
–Georges Duhamel
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 「」
407 – A Quote about Life
“I want to live simply. I want to sit by the window when it rains and read books I’ll never be tested on.
I want to paint because I want to, not because I’ve got something to prove. I want to listen to my body, fall asleep when the moon is high and wake up slowly, with no place to rush off to.
I want not to be governed by money or clocks or any artificial restraints that humanity imposes on itself. I just want to be, boundless and infinite.”
–anonymous
368 – “When you are in the dream, the dream doesn’t seem, to even be a dream. So, how an I deem, what I’m currently seeing, as the not being, just another dream dreaming?”
–Poet Christopher
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 (more…)
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