the sandman: fables & reflections

hope you guys are not sick yet of more sandman quotes. hehe.

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Some dreams are different. Most dreams are a tangle of things: foreground and background, subject and object. I once had a dream in which I was chasing a mad clown around Saint Patrick's Cathedral, which was also my old high school. And after a while I was the clown they were chasing.

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MORPHEUS: It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that bad to fail, that hard to fall?

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TODD: And sometimes, when you fall, you learn to fly.

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DESPAIR: Dreams. What are dreams? Dreams are nothing, my brother.

MORPHEUS: Dreams are "nothing," sister? Without dreams, there could be no despair.

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JOSHUA NORTON: I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear.

DEATH: Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.

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... wishes are sometimes best left ungranted...

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ORPHEUS: Uncle? Won't you wish us well?

DESTINY: I am Destiny. I am Potmos. I do not wish. I know. What must happen will happen. That is the way of it.

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HIPPOGRIFF: Orpheus. We have heard of your loss; you have our sympathies also.
ORPHEUS: I do not need your pity, Hippogriff.

HIPPOGRIFF: It was freely given, boy. You should not scorn it.

ORPHEUS: Don't pity me.

MORPHEUS: You should have gone to her funeral.

ORPHEUS: Why?

MORPHEUS: To say goodbye.

ORPHEUS: I have not yest said goodbye to Eurydice.

MORPHEUS: You should. You are mortal: it is the mortal way. You attend the funeral, you bid farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times, the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.

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ABEL: Death was a little older than Dream. Things had the potential to die before they had the potential to dream

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MORPHEUS: It is unwise to summon what you cannot dismiss.