"Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it."

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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."

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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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family."

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"Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work."

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