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Later, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies ... Thus it was that I gradually came to acknowledge that such fantasies or dreams are neither meaningless nor purely arbitrary but rather convey a sort of "second meaning" of the terms applied.

Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.

Like I said, when all of that goes away and you just completely lose yourself in the fantasy of it, then that's usually when I walk out of the theatre or turn off the television and just go: "That was brilliant!

Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

Looking at it, I started crying. Maybe it was knowing that I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life consuming fantasy , that someone or something was going to do this for me – the fantasy that someone was coming to lead my life, to choose direction, to give me orgasms.

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there

Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.

“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.

Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.

Modeling is about fantasy, getting people to buy into a lifestyle and a vision.

Most fears are not even based on our current reality. They are the product of imagined fears conjured up in our minds - the product of our own fantasies.

Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all goes back to Tolkien.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.

My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.

My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.

Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy.

My fantasy is, if I wasnt on Dexter, I would move my family to London and work for the BBC on Doctor Who.

My recent drawings that personal ones aren't fashion-related. I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.

One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor outwitting the market.

New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.

Not even I, in my original Spanish, am necessarily obliged to make exact quotations. I can do that or not, I can play with that opportunity or not. This is my right, or poetic license, as someone who is building an artefact of fantasy - this implicit pact with the reader is my starting point.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

One man's fantasy is another man's job.

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy.

Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood.

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.

Pakistani feature films are all about catering to the male ego and male fantasy.

Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy.

People don't like to say Horror so they say Dark Fantasy because that's Horror wearing a collar and tie.

Patrick Rothfuss gives us a fabulous debut, standing firmly on the main stage of the fantasy genre and needing no warm-up act. Jordan and Goodkind must be looking nervously over their shoulders!

Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!

Perhaps because technology so dominates our existence, more and more it seems that the young reader is captivated by fantasy.

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

Privacy is a bourgeois fantasy.

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself.