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Reality Quotes
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
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"Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level."
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"I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself."
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"There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality."
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"I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it."
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"Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception."
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"The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary."
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"No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality."
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"In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality."
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"Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be."
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"Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes."
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"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
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"Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality."
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"I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself."
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"Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."
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"Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days."
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"The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be."
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"Reality is in the ether, a blend of present-day experiences infused with one's memories and dreams. A life that is real to one is surreal to another."
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"Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into."
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"In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear."
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"Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life...fear beauty!"
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"Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live."
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"The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that."
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"In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality."
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"It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality."
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"Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty."
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"You can get over a million dollars worth of life insurance in case you die, but only eight to ten bucks and hour to live."
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"My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality."
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"Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised."
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"He had come to find out that reality was more than a dream, much more than a dream!"
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"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality."
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"I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things."
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"These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile."
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"For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy. ['Another empty room']"
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