"It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality."

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"It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality."

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"To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"If some people came into contact with anything real they would be shocked out of their minds."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Reality, World, Existence, Night, Voice

"They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of chaos, of the irrational, of the helpless, of man's self-abdication."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Reality, Life, Death, Suffering

"Not the reality, but your thoughts define your destiny."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"It is so sad that too many individuals spend their entire lives trying to impress people who are mostly clueless about their true purpose on earth."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Reality, Horror, Disgust, Perception

"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Reality, Culture, World, Truth, Self

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"All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art."

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"There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless."

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"We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves."

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"Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class."

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"A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind."

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"Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open."

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"I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic."

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"To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions."

"If some people came into contact with anything real they would be shocked out of their minds."

"No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it."

"They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of chaos, of the irrational, of the helpless, of man's self-abdication."

"The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive."

"Not the reality, but your thoughts define your destiny."

"It is so sad that too many individuals spend their entire lives trying to impress people who are mostly clueless about their true purpose on earth."

"He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness."

"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."

"We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves."

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"Comfort came in with the middle classes."

"We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it."

"It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal."

"All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art."

"There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless."

"We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves."

"Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class."

"A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind."

"Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open."

"I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic."