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The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.Ian Mcewan
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There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.Washington Irving
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Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.Alexandre Dumas
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We can imprison ourselves with our wants, wishes, and false dreams.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Honesty can sometimes be so brutal to take in. It's usual to get so drowned in perceived idealism that you can't seem to separate it from honest reality. If, and when, you can separate the two, the gaiety of fantasy is destroyedUfuoma Apoki
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All the time, I looked out our lattice window. I watched the birds fly by. I followed the clouds on their travels. I studied the moon as it grew larger, then shrank. So much happened outside my window that I almost forgot what was happening inside that room.Lisa See
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How's daydreaming affecting nightmares?? Showing the light where is all dark!Ana Claudia Antunes
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There is a difference between what I actually want and what I want to have fantasies about. (..) There is a part of my imagination which is a playground, a playground in which I am queen. It fulfils my need to have a fantasy land, and that need may be born of creativity as well as lack or repression. Our fantasies are about exploration and experimentation and the power of the imagination. Looked at intelligently, they can reveal a great deal. But there is a difference between fantasising and thinking about our hopes for the future.Anna Sands
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I live in two unique worlds, traveling between both with just the opening or closing of my eyes.Richelle E. Goodrich
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Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all the time.Gaston Bachelard
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Daydreaming is the purest form of being. Take that away and One suffers.Solange Nicole
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When I'm sad I tend to slide in to day dream and sing along whatever I hear on the radio.Martin M. Stupak
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He stared at her, knowing with certainty thathe was falling in love. He looked the other way, Her face triggered through his heart, forcing him to look back, and admire that beauty! ! Soon He pulled her close andkissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been luckyenough to find her... Wait it was morning, the dream was actually over ! !Douglas Self
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A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapor that corrects the all too angular contours of pure thought, fills up the gaps and intervals here and there, binds them together, and dulls the sharp corners of ideas. But too much reverie submerges and drowns. Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie it's pleasure. To replace thought with reverie is to confound poison with nourishment.Victor Hugo
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I have often thought that Walter Mitty had it in him to be more than a hen-pecked loser. Instead of living it up as a flamboyant daredevil in his dreams, he could have chosen to be a responsible man in real life, going about his work with dignity, and people may just have treated him with respect. Did his failures in life lead him to seek solace in daydreams or did his wandering mind stand in the way of his potential success? One must have triggered the other, and then it would have been both working together. An empty life drives you to fantasies of fulfilment, which then form a deadly, vicious circle which can turn you into a cartoon, as it did poor Mitty. Or lead you to ruin like Madame Bovary.Indu Muralidharan
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Puberty flicked a switch inside of them and dreams were replaced by hormones and college prep courses and varsity sports while I continued to look for faeries in the woods behind my house.Brian James
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(Dreams drain the spirit if we dream too long.)Theodore Roethke
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Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.Michael Pollan
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You're my hero, Rhage."Ears pricked up, Rhage watched her closely. Anything she said was important to him, and how lovely was that?" I always thought I'd grow up and find my own hero." Rainie grimaced at herself in the mirror. Obviously she shouldn't have wasted her youth on reading and daydreaming. "But I gave up; I'm not holding out for a hero anymore.Cherise Sinclair
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...and when he dies, cut him out in little stars, and the face of heaven will be so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no heed to the garish sun.William Shakespeare
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Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.Bo Bennett