Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

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Homer (; Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros; possibly born c. 8th century BC) was an ancient Greek poet who is traditionally credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer was highly revered in ancient Greek society...

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They say dreams are the windows of the soul—take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

—Henry Bromel

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

—Germaine Greer

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?

—George Bernard Shaw

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

—Friedrich von Schiller

The wisest men follow their own direction.

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