I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but it’s less real than a rock. A dream is real — if it weren’t, it wouldn’t be a dream — but less real than a thing. That’s what being real is like.
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Related It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER I like being a leader in real life. DONNIE WAHLBERG No matter who you are and what you do, you can prove to yourself that you can be anybody you want to... BLABLABLA The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS The most important thing in life is, if you have a dream, I mean a real good dream, follow it. EVEL KNIEVEL I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dr... BECKY LYNCH Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree i... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame. UMBERTO ECO What Barrett-Jackson is selling is a dream, and a lot of people can fulfill that dream with real mon... DAVE KINNEY For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame. UMBERTO ECO Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tr... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie? ANDY ROONEY At some point, I'll have to go get a real job. SIMONE BILES I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job. MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy... HUBERT SELBY JR. A dream is only a dream.. until you decide to make it real HARRY STYLES Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree i... ABRAHAM LINCOLN By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement. IDRIS ELBA For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ... TAMMARA WEBBER Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real. NIK KERSHAW Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one w... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY Life is a lot like skateboarding. LIL WAYNE Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man. ALEXANDER MCQUEEN You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you. BILL O'REILLY You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you. BILL O'REILLY I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying. JAMES GALWAY It was two weeks after the day she turned eighteen All dressed in white Going to the churc... CARRIE UNDERWOOD Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Without music, life is a journey through a desert. PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. POPE FRANCIS Real Madrid has chosen me and I have chosen Real Madrid. It is a dream to play here. I am very happy... ANTONIO CASSANO Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM ... the logic of supernatural horror [is] a logic founded on fear, a logic whose sole principle stat... THOMAS LIGOTTI Joining Real Madrid is a dream come true. DAVID BECKHAM But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist. GLENN DANZIG The image is a dream. The beauty is real. RICHARD BACH I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. He was part of my dream, of course - but then I was part of his dream too. LEWIS CARROLL Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge " (2.22)... JAMES JOYCE Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE It's a real man who can go out with a woman who's taller than he is. That's an alpha mal... MIRANDA HART A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days? LAUREN BACALL When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. L... J. COLE If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA A dream itself is but a shadow. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Talk about a dream, try to make it real. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Life is a school of probability. WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning. LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon. MELANIE CHISHOLM His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Life is a grand party. EZRA MILLER "It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like... GARTH NIX Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dr... SAMUEL JOHNSON It's weird. I mean, he's a dream, a fantasy, and, if he becomes real, it's like he's not mine anymor... RALPH MARSTON It didn't seem real, it seemed like a dream. I closed my eyes several times to try to see if I was d... CRISTIAN ZORZI We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it'... TIM RICE We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's... TIM RICE Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? the monster said, bending down so it's face was close to... PATRICK NESS The Horizon project remains on track. To date we have achieved our critical milestones and advanced ... REAL DOUCET i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i... NOT REAL Boys do not long for fathers who will usher them through the gauntlet of psychological disconnect. T... T. REAL The rule that surpasses all rules is that you must be connected, willing to see what's in front of y... TERRENCE REAL I won't forget when I couldn't go to bed with the lights off When I heard that voice call me in... REAL FRIENDS You'll spend every Saturday night on the bathroom floor with no recollection of the night before REAL FRIENDS You have to accept and agree with this short notice that “having a dream is different from fulfill... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR We all know I won't be killed because of this stupid allegation of espionage, but because I decided ... PAULO COELHO We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it... TIM RICE What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is litt... PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind GEORGE GILDER The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ABRAHAM LINCOLN The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ABRAHAM LINCOLN If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi... JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh... A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS If I could make a dream real, I would not kill anything unless it could never be changed at heart. ROBERT FANNEY People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A lot of people don't consider [mixed martial arts] a real sport. But it's here; it's real. PATRICK FREITAS Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. MARCUS AURELIUS In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin. CHARLES STUDD Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real. DONALD WILLS DOUGLAS Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real. DONALD DOUGLAS I envy you, your youth. Every woman is still a dream, a thing that can’t exist. Even when you touc... RASMENIA MASSOUD Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child. ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
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[Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq... LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and
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[Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.] LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Obscurity is the realm of error.
[Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.] LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
[Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.] LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock. JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.
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