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There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems --but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.
Salman Rushdie
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
Cesare Pavese
Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even
Carl Gustav Jung, The Real and t
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
Federico Fellini
The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.
Gertrude Stein
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
Ben Stein
A cause a day keeps reality away.
Jim Fraser
What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying
Virginia Woolf
Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.
Bhagavad Gita
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
Wallace Stevens
The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
Graham Greene
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
George Eliot
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
