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Reality Quotes
"I have to tell you the truth. But you are too ugly for it."
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"You see your reflections in thoughts not things."
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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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"You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd."
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"I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a planet looks smooth, from orbit."
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"I have lived so long within the circle of this book [Tender Is The Night] and with these characters that often it seems to me that the real world does not exist but that only these characters exist, and, however pretentious that remark sounds....it is an absolute fact---so much so that their glees and woes are just exactly as important to me as what happens in life."
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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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"My world foreshortened, flattening into a credit card. Seen head on, things seemed merely skewed, but from the side the view was virtually meaningless--a one-dimensional wafer. Everything about me may have been crammed in there, but it was only plastic. Indecipherable except to some machine."
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"There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our 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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"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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"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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"The perception of reality is something that is constructed by the human mind based on its own needs and knacks."
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"While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running."
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"Everyone is the creator of their own perceived illusion of reality."
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"In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing, the world lies waiting."
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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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"Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect."
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"Does your reality match your expectations? If not it's time to change either your expectations or your reality."
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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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