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“Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.”
“Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden.. forbidden for him. It's possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa.”
“I have a subconscious list of rules for how reality should work. I did not develop these rules on purpose, and most of them dont make sense which is disturbing when you consider that they are an a...”
“When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.”
“Reality is a very subjective affair. I can only define it as a kind of gradual accumulation of information; and as specialization. If we take a lily, for instance, or any other kind of natural obje...”
“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”
“All you really have...is now.”
“To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.”
“it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just ...”
“There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.”
“If we knew everything would change we would have turned back but we didn't know. Thats how things happen. Especially sunny days hide dark moments in their pockets.”
“In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.”
“It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.”
“Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the reality of their own.”
“there isn't a slightest wound that doesn't hurt in the heart.”
“As I was sitting in my chair,I knew the bottom wasn't there,Nor legs nor back, but I just sat,Ignoring little things like that.”
“My personal theory is that he has a very firm grasp upon reality, it's simply not a reality the rest of us have ever met before.”
“Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.”
“You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.”
“We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.”
