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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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"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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"Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be."
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"I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself."
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"Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality."
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"Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."
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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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"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 not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into."
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"Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live."
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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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"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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"Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days."
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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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"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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"Harry Potter isn't real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don't know who you are or what your name is or where you're from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter's real and you're not."
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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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"He had come to find out that reality was more than a dream, much more than a dream!"
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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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"Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded."
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"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality."
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