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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
Auden, W.H.

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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
Wright, Steven

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To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
Rivarol, Antoine

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If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame.
Duritz, Adam

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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
Vonnegut, Kurt

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He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
Nin, Anais

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One man's daydreaming is another man's day.
Livingston, Grey

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One man's daydreaming is another man's woman.
Livingston, Grey

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One man's daydreaming is another man's novel.
Livingston, Grey

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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it.
Locke, John

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All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance.
Rozanov, V.V.

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