Roald DahlA dream is not needing anything. If it is a good one, it is waiting peaceably for ever until it is released and allowed to do its job. If it is a bad one, it is always fighting to get out.
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Though the English poet William Blake wrote, "A dream is not needing anything," he was, in fact, speaking of a pure dream state. A dream state requires no effort to achieve. It will happen simply because the person who is dreaming has decided that it should.
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