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waking
«The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.»
«These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.»
Author: Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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frivolity, pitiful, sleeping, splendid, sprightlier, sprightly, waking
«We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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after death, congratulate, congratulated, congratulates, congratulating, troubled, waking
«When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Dreams,
Life
| Keywords:
carefully, certainty, property, separates, The Dream, waking
«The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
contrary, dialect, dialects, images, languages, languages of, other than, sensations, The Dream, to that, various, waking
«The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
exercising, half-hour, propitious, thronged, thronging, waking