"Never in a dream could I have invented such a threatening atmosphere holding so many seemingly gentle people."
Sayfa 15
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my broken soul.
We are clearly living through one of the most difficult periods of our history. Some say we are divided over Vietnam others blame domestic discord. But I believe that the cause of our anguish is deeper. Throughout our history we believed that effort was its own reward. Partly because so much has been achieved here in America, we tended to suppose that every problem must have a solution, and that good intentions should somehow guarantee good results. Utopia was seen not as a dream but as our logical destination if we only traveled the right road. Our generation is the first to find that the road is endless, that in traveling it we will not find utopia but only ourselves. The realization of our essential loneliness accounts for so much of the frustration and the rage of our time.
“because my bearings are always pitched to who I ought to be, not to who I am, to what I should have, not to what I never knew I craved, to life as I found it, not to the life I’ve let myself think was only a dream.”
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And a great quiet had followed.
I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease, a balanced society with security and-permaneney as its watchword, it had attained its hopes- to come to this at last. Once, life and property must have reached almost absolute safety. The rich had been assured of his wealth and comfori, the toiler assured of his life and work. No doubt in that perfect world there had been no unemployed problem, no social question left unsolved. And a great quiet had followed.
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The Standover Man
One night, after my usual nightmare, a shadow stood above me. She said, "Tell me what you dream of." So I did.
In return, she explained what her own dreams were made of.
Now I think we are friends, this girl and me. On her birthday, it was she who gave a gift to me.
It makes me understand that the best standover man I have ever known is not a man at all...
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of your skin, but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King
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I have a dream," he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and you!
