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Reality Quotes
"Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are."
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"Workers can offer guidance for improving the work."
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"As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you could not have wept over their trials and laughed over their pleasures."
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"The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story-tellers neglect as insignificant trifles. Oh, they have no thought to spare for such details, their minds are concentrated on their grand invention as a whole, and fancy any one daring to pull them up for a trifle! But that's how they are caught."
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"No matter how ugly a fruit is, worms will seek it out."
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"Gifts - that strange word, a signifier meaning disappointment you can hold in your hands."
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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 is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you for it was the illusion they loved."
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"We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there."
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"Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be."
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"The stars look like they're so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can't. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are."
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"Shakespeare, he thought as he scribbled away. "Foolish fancy. This is life as it is lived."
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"Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it."
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"Nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies)."
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"Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders' attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to face within you and all the pain you have ever endured, came from your own attempt to evade the fact that A is A."
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"Reality is frequently inaccurate."
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"War does that, nothing for it. Reality lays siege. Your framed portrait of life is smashed, and a new one thrust upon you. It's ugly, and you don't even want to look at it let alone hang it on the wall, but you have no choice, once you know. Once you really know."
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"Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory."
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"It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya."
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"This may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's the only real one."
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"Don't cover up your sore with your wealth. Your wealth has limitations. At the Limit the sore will embarrassing by surface."
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"The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head."
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"A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world."
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"Life introduces us to the gentle, cosmic rhythms of an extraneous world. What is objective truth might exceed human capacity to ever fully perceive, comprehend, and explain."
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"Sufis deny the absolute reality of time, space and physical form. These things are both relative and local. They only appear to be absolute."
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"Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last."
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"Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality."
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"She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries."
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"My favourite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up, leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favourite piece of information is that young sloths are so inept they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs and fall out of trees. However, this is not relevant to what is currently on my mind because it concerns sloths, whereas the Branwell Brontë piece of information concerns writers, feeling like death, and doing things to prove they can be done—all of which are pertinent to my current situation to a degree that is, frankly, spooky."
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