Quote by Ernst Fischer
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has becom

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. – Ernst Fischer

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. – Ernst Fischer

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If you cant pay for a thing, dont buy it. If you cant get paid for it, dont sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, dont wait for time. – Ernst Fischer

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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, dont they? – Manuel Puig

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Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in. – Emmitt Smith

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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. – George Santayana

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What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. – John Polkinghorne

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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. – Orson Welles

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There is always a way to be honest without being brutal. – Arthur Dobrin

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