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Thomas Nagel

"There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality."

Thomas Nagel, Yugoslavian Philosopher
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"You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there's always a bloody show."

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"It couldn't have been gonorrhea, which never stops eating you up of its own accord. Why should it ever stop of its own accord? It's having such a nice time. Why call off the party? Look how healthy and happy the kids are."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author
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"If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next-if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions-you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist
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"To 'pretend' is to say that I'm willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I'm unwilling to cultivate the bravery that it takes to be real. And I am at a complete loss to pretend that either of these aren't true."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author
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"Kicking the can down the road implies that we're accepted the galling reality that whatever it is that we've avoiding, it's something that's not going to go away; at least on its own."

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"If I'm surprised at where I'm at, it's probably because I'm not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I've listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author
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"You don't deserve to understand truth if all that you want is just the normal life."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author
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"To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions."

Debasish Mridha, American Author
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"Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full."

Idries Shah, Indian Author
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"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer
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