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Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination. -
Eugene Ionesco
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Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. what we take to be true is our reality. -
Gary Zukav
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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. -
Hermann Hesse
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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. -
Margaret Fuller
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Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. -
Philip K Dick
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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. -
Norman Douglas
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -
Albert Einstein
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been. -
George Eliot
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Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. -
Bruce Lee
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What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists. -
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced. -
Graham Greene
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To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed. -
Hubert H Humphrey
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The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet. -
John F Kennedy
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. -
Martin Luther King Jr
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Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless. -
Albert Camus
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. -
J G Ballard
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There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. -
Natalie Clifford Barney
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