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Reality Quotes
"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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"A bitter reality of truth can be wisely told in a sweet tale of lullaby."
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"Like measuring light as a particle or wave makes it what the observer expects, so too does assuming things about reality make it so. I fear the conclusion people gear up for is the wholesale demise of many millions unless this spiritual ennui ceases. How many catastrophes have people expected in the last few decades? How many times have humans expected the End Times?"
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"Our personal experiences and mental reasoning skills establish the range of our perception of reality. Our physical and mental abilities determine the outer perimeter regarding what we can experience and learn. Our inaugurating dreams are unlimited by physical reality and our genetic composition. There will always be an unbridgeable rift between countless combinations of human dreams and the infinity of reality, unless we accept what we are without wishing to be something else."
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"Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it."
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"Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank."
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"She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception."
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"Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner."
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"I have to tell you the truth. But you are too ugly for it."
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"This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed."
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"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."
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"Hit your hand on a stone and expect it to hurt."
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"I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescued from menace by romantic Vor youths. For some reason they never play 'dying in childbirth', or 'vomiting your guts out from the red dysentery', or 'weaving till you go blind and crippled from arthritis and dye poisoning', or 'infanticide'. Well, they do die romantically of disease sometimes, but somehow it's always an illness that makes you interestingly pale and everyone sorry and doesn't involve losing bowel control."
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"I'm sorry,' he says.'What? Why?'You're fixing everything I set down.' He nods at my hands, which are readjusting the elephant. 'It wasn't polite of me to come in and start touching your things.'Oh, it's okay,' I say quickly, letting go of the figurine. 'You can touch anything of mine you want.' would be so bad."
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"Experiential reality is a pure reflection of your own state of being. You see what you believe. It is that simple."
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"But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes."
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"The clarity of perception makes reality look as it is."
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"A human beings' perception of reality emanates from viewing the universe, which is in a constant state of creation and destruction. The universe in which we move and work in outlasts human interests, hopes, expectations, and joy, and all forms of aversion, effort, pain, and humiliation. The world outlasts our dreams, love songs, bouts of inanity and anxiety, it outlast regrets, remorse, and shame."
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"The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle."
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"Their grumpiness is often the grumpiness of perfectionists who hold that anything less than total victory is failure, a premise that makes it easy to give up at the start or to disparage the victories that are possible. This is Earth. It will never be heaven. There will always be cruelty, always be violence, always be de- struction."
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"The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor."
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"Reality is the make-believe of the majority that can only thrive in conformity."
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"Everyone is the creator of their own perceived illusion of reality."
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"Nothing's news.it's the same old thing indisguise.only one thing comes without adisguise and you only see itonce, ormaybe never.like getting hit by a freighttrain.makes us realize that all ourmoaning about long lost girlsin gingham dressesis not so importantafterall."
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"Reality is a perceptual illusion we have accepted as truth."
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"All Chelsea's internet dates were gorgeous. Until she met them."
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"We are in this fairyland on sufferance, it is not for us to quarrel with the conditions under which we enjoy this wild vision of the world."
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"You can viddy that everything in this wicked world counts. You can pony that one thing always leads to another. Right right right."
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