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Reality Quotes


"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."


"Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception."


"The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary."


"I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it."


"There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality."


"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."


"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."


"I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself."


"Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another."


"The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be."


"Sometimes in the quest for enlightenment the only thing that gets lighter is your wallet."


"We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality."


"Being in a relationship doesn't entitle you to anything. You don't get what you expect, you get what you create."


"Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live."


"The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that."


"We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real."


"If you desire to be financially wealthy but don't know how to invest time, then you are just dreaming."


"In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality."


"The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality."


"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."


"The ultimate security is your understanding of reality."


"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."


"I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity."


"Reality is the dream for the subconscious mind."


"In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them."


"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."


"No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality."


"The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation."


"Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."


"I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show."


"You may not be able to understand the world, but you can create your own world with your perception and imagination."


"You cannot change reality by ignoring it."


"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality."


"For every physical realm, there is a spiritual realm."


"I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel."


"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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