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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."

"She was someone's dream, who just chose to show up in someone else's sleep."

"I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious."

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

"My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner."

"The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream."
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"Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them."


"Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth."


"I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed."


"If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teachthem how to use television."


"The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis."


"Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do."


"I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it)."


"There, Master Niketas,' Baudolino said, 'when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the green honey. There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,' he said, 'to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one."
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