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Dream Quotes by Siri Hustvedt

13 Dream quotes by Siri Hustvedt

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Siri Hustvedt’s dream excerpts feel like a quiet intellectual stroll, each of the thirteen lines probing the layers of imagination. She balances philosophical curiosity with personal resonance, making the set a thoughtful companion for readers who enjoy reflective depth.

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Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer...

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“Are not dreams as much a part of living as waking life is?”

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Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

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“...the distance needed for humor is always missing from dreams.”

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Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

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Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference…

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There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

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I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I'm doing…

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All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our…

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Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day,…

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Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of…

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“I'm sure that my dreams of maleness are least partly about escaping the cultural expectation that burden femininity, but I also think…

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“I've come to think of consciousness as a continuum of states, from fully awake cogitation to daydreaming to the altered consciousness of…

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I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.

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With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee…

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I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for…

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I watched 'Holiday' in college, and that was when I had my first fantasy of being Katharine Hepburn, standing at the top of the…

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“the impersonal and the personal are always connected.”

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When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.

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“Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.”

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There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

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The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our…

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“Looking is part of love, but what you see when you look is anybody's guess.”

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Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

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I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

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