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"Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality."
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"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."
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"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality."
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"It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces."
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"But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory."
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"You cannot change reality by ignoring it."
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"The reality about life is that challenges are inevitable."
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"I don't know why everyoneis still trying to find out whether heaven and hell exist.Why do we need more evidence?They exist here on this very Earth.Heaven is standing atop Mount Qasiounoverlooking the Damascene sightswith the wind carrying Qabbani'sdulcet words all around you.And hell is only four hours away in Aleppo where children's cries drown out the explosions of mortar bombsuntil they lose their voice,their families, and their limbs.Yes, hell certainly does existright now, at this moment,as I pen this poem. And all we're doingto extinguish this hellfireis sighing, shrugging, liking, and sharing.Tell me: what exactly does that makeus? Are we any better than the gatekeepers of hell?"
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"Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations."
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"Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect."
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"It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake."
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"Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character."
Age
"You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own."
People
"If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any."
Chance
"Reason is the servant of instinct."
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"If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours."
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"The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation."
Animals
"Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality."
Reality
"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing."
Art
"Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first."
Animals
"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience."
Experience
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