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Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they s...

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Reality is not always probable, or likely.

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may m...

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There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunr...

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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscul...

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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

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Jorge Luis BorgesLabyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, ...

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Jorge Luis BorgesLabyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality o...

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Truth must be found in reality, not systems.

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Joseph BeuysWhat Is Art?: Conversations with Joseph Beuys

A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to expr...

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... every hypothesis is a construction, and because of this it is an authentic theory. In so far as ...

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So it happens that we must ask ourselves, with regard to truth, not for a new criterion for it, whic...

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José Ortega y GassetLa Idea De Principio En Leibniz Y La Evolución De La Teoría Deductiva

Dominique (who, like other Catamount girls, had a cache of pills for every occasion) offered me a be...

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When I was a child, I would draw these little stick-figures, and my mom would put them up all over t...

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Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art o...

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Julian AssangeJulian Assange - The Unauthorised Autobiography

For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully...

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Julian BarnesA History of the World in 10½ Chapters

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

It had been a slow and painful business, discovering that the theory of love did not match the reali...

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What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he wo...

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In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then th...

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In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ...

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Julio CortázarAround the Day in Eighty Worlds

All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager...

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Julio CortázarAround the Day in Eighty Worlds

Mythology was never designed to describe historically verifiable events that actually happened. It w...

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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face and ...

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Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

I discovered at an early age that I was - shall we be kind and say different? It's a better, more ge...

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Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

I don't think I can give you an answer. Oh, I could give you Freudian reasons with fancy talk, and t...

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Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

If the truth is inside,And the form is outside,What is the truth of sleep?

That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does.

it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that'...

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Its oke to be sad. I've been trained to love my darkness

Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled lik...

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. L...

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Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This pra...

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I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, ...

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Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind...

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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

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Leonard CohenBeautiful Losers

Every argument for God and every attribute ascribed to Him rests on a false metaphysical premise. No...

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Leonard PeikoffObjectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen...

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But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and adm...

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How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the...

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Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's ...

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Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's ...

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Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's ...

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Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's ...

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Soon she cried and farted herself to sleep.

A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree ...

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The right method of philosophy would be this. To say nothing except what can be said, i.e. the propo...

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The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.

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Ludwig WittgensteinTractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Praxeology is a theoretical and systematic, not a historical, science. Its scope is human action as ...

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Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is...

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You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today since like that of yesterday ...

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Why are you so anxious to destroy in the name of a vulgar, commonplace sense of truth, this reality ...

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Luigi PirandelloSix Characters in Search of an Author

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

Today we live in a society that seems to be less and less concerned with reality. We drink instant c...

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But what is real? In the Bible we are constantly being given glimpses of a reality quite different f...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Reality's what other people dream for you.

You don't have to do this," Ronan said."There isn't anything else, man.""There's reality."Kavinsky l...

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His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just an...

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You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of...

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Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

The entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. They shouldn't have cared so much that th...

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Malcolm GladwellBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the mos...

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Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no m...

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All our interior world is reality - and that perhaps more so than our apparent world.

Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex...

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What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that...

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But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point o...

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

How good it is when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that t...

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How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that ...

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Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dream...

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The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more...

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Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the brig...

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Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care mor...

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It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human...

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Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those o...

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Marianne WilliamsonTears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe...

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I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much diffe...

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Her name had the likeness of a name. She had the likeness of a woman, with hands but no face at all,...

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We live on a little island of the articulable, which we tend to mistake for reality itself.

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Marilynne RobinsonWhen I Was a Child I Read Books

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Men have nothing in common with me--there is no point of contact; they have foolish little feelings ...

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You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagi...

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Nothing exists; all is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream...

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Mark TwainThe Mysterious Stranger

I think: you deserve to be what you are if you could bare to get that way. You must have seen it com...

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Belief is otiose reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

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Martin AmisThe Second Plane: 14 Responses to September 11

The ‘I’ is a bare consciousness, accompanying all concepts. In the ‘I’, ‘nothing more is represented...

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Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its re...

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Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments an...

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And now you'll be telling storiesof my coming backand they won't be false, and they won't be truebut...

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Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread.