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Reality Quotes
"Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing."
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"You see your reflections in thoughts not things."
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"Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never."
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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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"I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future."
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"Most people lose the only thing they possess-Life-while acquiring the many things that will finally never be theirs."
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"We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces."
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"Because she looks to the sky so often, people think that her life is sweet, that her eyes are dotted with dreamy stars. But quite the opposite is true and I wish they could see- she looks up so much because all around her it's hard to see without breaking her heart. She once saw in a movie a window sign that said "We're all in the gutter; but some of us are looking at the stars." From that movie onwards, she decided to look up! Doesn't mean her life is sweet, doesn't mean her eyes are dotted with dreamy stars."
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"Being in a relationship doesn't entitle you to anything. You don't get what you expect, you get what you create."
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"The most brutal avenger on earth is a reality you ignored, however minor."
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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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"I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination."
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"The map is not the territory," Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads."
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"The reality about life is that challenges are inevitable."
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"Shakespeare, he thought as he scribbled away. "Foolish fancy. This is life as it is lived."
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"The world is the puzzle, itself. The one who solves this 'puzzle' attains the degree of Parmatma [the Absolute Supreme Self]."
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"It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces."
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"Reality is the make-believe of the majority that can only thrive in conformity."
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"Good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ..."
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"The perception of reality is something that is constructed by the human mind based on its own needs and knacks."
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"Everyone is the creator of their own perceived illusion of reality."
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"Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it."
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"For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us bountiful sums of money or beget exemplary objects or organisations....Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or a bicycle."
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"We fake perfect so others don't have to experience any unpleasant realities, because their life is just as fake as ours."
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"What I most hate is the books and films and all other stuff which all the time end in happy end, do you hate it...It's better to be in happy and... - After all I wanted to show the taste of the real world, a injury in father's childhood, then injury when his wife dies..."
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"From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at the mall had been wounded. Nineteen had died. Everyone said it was a miracle that only nineteen perished. What has gone wrong with our world when nineteen dead can seem like any kind of miracle?"
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"And our ages never bothered her from the very beginning. I was married, but that didn't matter, either. She seemed to consider things like age and family and income to be of the same a priori order as shoe size and vocal pitch and the shape of one's fingernails. The sort of thing that thinking about won't change one bit. And that much said, well, she had a point."
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"She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries."
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"But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes."
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"Gifts - that strange word, a signifier meaning disappointment you can hold in your hands."
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"When you start dreaming- what's there to boast?Life may treat you like a living ghostBrokenness haunts you until you perishDeath will bring you nothing to cherish."
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