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Reality Quotes
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
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"There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality."
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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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"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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"I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it."
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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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"No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality."
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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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"I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself."
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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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"If you are thinking of making everyone happy, you are going to be a great prostitute."
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"Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised."
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"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
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"Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."
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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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"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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"Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality."
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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 Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."
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"I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity."
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"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality."
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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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"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
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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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"I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger."
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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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"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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"There are billions of people in the world, and each one of them has their own view of reality."
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"In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality."
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