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Each being is, exactly as you are, the sole centre of a Universe in no wise identical with, or even ...

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In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Sphe...

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Aleister CrowleyMagick in Theory and Practice

For me they are no different, reality and dreams.

Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.

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Alexander McCall SmithThe Lost Art of Gratitude

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable rea...

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Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.Unlimited possibility and abstract creati...

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Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning...

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Alice Miller (psychologist)The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Science gives an exact photograph of the world, but it lacks an essential dimension of reality.

Every morning there are flowers of potentials. Your thoughts and interactions give them shape and re...

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Amit RayPeace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

I now lived in an invisible place made of my own dwindling breath, and because no one else could see...

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And since the portions of both the large and the small are equal in amount, in this way too all thin...

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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdepende...

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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept becau...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept becau...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shack...

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Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depressio...

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Andrew SolomonThe Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in ...

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Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

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André BretonAnthology of Black Humor

She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and ...

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Angela CarterThe Lady of the House of Love

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someon...

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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

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Anne CarsonAutobiography of Red

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he s...

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Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

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A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Realit...

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Is it not late? A late time to be living? Are not our generations the crucial ones? For we have chan...

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What I aim to do is not so much learn the names of the shreds of creation that flourish in this vall...

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I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who ...

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Anthony BourdainKitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but ...

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My son, my son. When I had my son I would explain all that to him when he was starry enough to like ...

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Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insince...

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It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

You're a romantic,” said Crabbe. “You expect too much. Reality's always dull, you know, but when we ...

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Anthony BurgessTime for a Tiger

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen a...

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Anthony de MelloAwareness: Conversations with the Masters

We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.

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Anthony de MelloAwareness: Conversations with the Masters

We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause - for ...

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Anthony de MelloAwareness: Conversations with the Masters

In short, the man displayed a constant and insurmountable impulse to wrap himself in a covering, to ...

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Anton ChekhovThe Complete Short Stories of Anton Chekhov

Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on t...

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There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. Bu...

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem pr...

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We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time an...

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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to t...

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The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die o...

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Ammu's tears made everything that had so far seemed unreal, real.

To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.

It seemed natural; natural to the moment’s peculiar reality that was sharply clear, but cut off from...

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It was as if a volcano were cracking open, yet the people at the foot of the mountain ignored the su...

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Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of exist...

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No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is o...

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There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another—if me...

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... he had always wondered why the sensations one felt in dreamas were so much more intense than any...

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I was reminded of a painter friend who had started her career by depicting scenes from life, mainly ...

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We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone e...

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It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days...

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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I...

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For scientists, reality is not optional.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when...

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Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so...

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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

When you have money in hand,only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your ...

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For all our mutual experienceOur separate conclusions are the sameNow we are forced to recognize our...

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Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. Th...

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Black ElkBlack Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to li...

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About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particular...

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Shoving feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

Truth is individual.”“What? No it’s not. Truth is . . . it’s Truth. Reality.”“Your truth is what you...

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One spiritual writer has observed that human beings are born with two diseases: life, from which we ...

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How do I know you're not crazy?" she asks. "How do I know you're not the craziest dude I've ever met...

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The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree...

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I had dreamed of something so different from what reality was now offering up, but that dream had be...

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Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

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Bruno SchulzThe Street of Crocodiles

Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of ...

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When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the patte...

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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies t...

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We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they tha...

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The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes ar...

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C. S. LewisAn Experiment in Criticism

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition.

And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what onl...

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C. S. LewisTill We Have Faces

Of the things that followed I cannot at all say whether they were what men call real or what men cal...

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Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect w...

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Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my s...

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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a cont...

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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality...

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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal intro...

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For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the univer...

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It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional p...

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Carl SaganThe Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

The atoms of our body, as well, flow in and away from us. We, like waves and like all objects, are a...

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Carlo RovelliLa realtà non è come ci appare: La struttura elementare delle cose

Nothing is pending in the world…nothing is finished, yet nothing is unresolved…Everything is filled ...

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Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and the...

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Carlos FuentesMyself with Others: Selected Essays

Now, back in the reality that always lies in wait among the shadows of the Ensanche quarter, the enc...

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You don't look well," he pronounced."Indigestion," I replied."From what?""Reality.""Join the queue.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.