"This may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's the only real one."

Reality, Acceptance, World, Truth

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"I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Reality, Events, Control, Truth, Life

"You're too old for fairy tales, Baasen said."

James S.A. Corey, American Author

Reality, Aging, Change, Fantasy

"By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Reality, Truth, Dreams, Life, Awakening

"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Swedish Businessman

Reality, Perception, Truth, Expectation

"Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Reality, Life, Chaos, Despair, Family

"A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen."

George Eliot, British Author

Reality, Expectation, Impossibility, Truth

"But, Henry, this is wicked!' But, Adam, the world is wicked. Maoris prey on Moriori, Whites prey on darker-hued cousins, fleas prey on mice, cats prey on rats, Christians on infidels, first mates on cabin boys, Death on the Living. 'The weak are meat, the strong do eat."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Reality, Survival, Conflict, Power, Violence

"It's more real to me here than if I went up," he suddenly heard himself say; and the fear lest that last shadow of reality should lose its edge kept him rooted to his seat as the minutes succeeded each other."

Edith Wharton, American Author

Reality, Fear, Presence, Perception

"Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are-how impossible to reach."

Ally Condie, American Author

Reality, Truth, Perception, Time

"The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that, and maybe sleeping beauty's dead."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Reality, Fantasy, Truth, Expectation

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"I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me."

"You're too old for fairy tales, Baasen said."

"By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."

"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."

"Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens."

"A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen."

"But, Henry, this is wicked!' But, Adam, the world is wicked. Maoris prey on Moriori, Whites prey on darker-hued cousins, fleas prey on mice, cats prey on rats, Christians on infidels, first mates on cabin boys, Death on the Living. 'The weak are meat, the strong do eat."

"It's more real to me here than if I went up," he suddenly heard himself say; and the fear lest that last shadow of reality should lose its edge kept him rooted to his seat as the minutes succeeded each other."

"Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are-how impossible to reach."

"The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that, and maybe sleeping beauty's dead."

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"Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to."

"One needs confidence in the morning and courage at night."

"Art is a picture of the spirit."

"We let life down: it doesn't let us down."

"A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be."

"The true order is what the wind creates by scattering the leaves."

"People on foot, on bikes, in cars, on planes-all chasing freedom."

"Where the signposts end, the trail begins."

"You can always count on God to do nothing."

"One is free, and at the mercy of everything."