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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.Showing Quotes on reality
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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.Showing Quotes on reality
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Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fablesShowing Quotes on reality
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You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Showing Quotes on reality
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You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.Showing Quotes on reality
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything, a good reason and the real reason.Showing Quotes on reality
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happenShowing Quotes on reality
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Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived itShowing Quotes on reality
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I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same stateShowing Quotes on reality
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Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tuneShowing Quotes on reality
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My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against itShowing Quotes on reality
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Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysicsShowing Quotes on reality
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The real truths are those that can be inventedShowing Quotes on reality
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What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.Showing Quotes on reality
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I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must beShowing Quotes on reality
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A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated itShowing Quotes on reality
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Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of lifeShowing Quotes on reality
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its authorShowing Quotes on reality
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The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happenShowing Quotes on reality
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not triedShowing Quotes on reality
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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glassShowing Quotes on reality
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Every man is a volume, if you know how to read himShowing Quotes on reality
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Man's spiritual nature is no dream of theologians to vanish before the light of natural science. It is the grandest reality on earthShowing Quotes on reality
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They that have lived a single day have lived an ageShowing Quotes on reality
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We come too late to say anything which has not been said alreadyShowing Quotes on reality
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The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truthShowing Quotes on reality
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The reality is, all over the country the number of people in the homeless condition continues to grow. It will grow significantly as far as the eye can see. It's near crisis right now. It will certainly get thereShowing Quotes on reality
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But facts are facts and flinch notShowing Quotes on reality
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It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and trueShowing Quotes on reality
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its placeShowing Quotes on reality
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The logic of words should yield to the logic of realitiesShowing Quotes on reality
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Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?Showing Quotes on reality
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The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really doesShowing Quotes on reality
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.Showing Quotes on reality
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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infiniteShowing Quotes on reality
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It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.Showing Quotes on reality
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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silenceShowing Quotes on reality
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Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realising itShowing Quotes on reality
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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperityShowing Quotes on reality
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.Showing Quotes on reality
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Practical politics consists in ignoring factsShowing Quotes on reality
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidenceShowing Quotes on reality
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.Showing Quotes on reality
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishesShowing Quotes on reality
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.Showing Quotes on reality
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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.Showing Quotes on reality
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I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took sevenShowing Quotes on reality
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I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now doShowing Quotes on reality
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truthShowing Quotes on reality
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.Showing Quotes on reality
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.Showing Quotes on reality
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The love we give away is the only love we keepShowing Quotes on reality
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A mother who is really a mother is never freeShowing Quotes on reality
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of GodShowing Quotes on reality
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it homeShowing Quotes on reality
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experiencedShowing Quotes on reality
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You cannot create experience. You must undergo itShowing Quotes on reality
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwardsShowing Quotes on reality
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircaseShowing Quotes on reality
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreamingShowing Quotes on reality
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meetShowing Quotes on reality
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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his wakingShowing Quotes on reality
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awakeShowing Quotes on reality
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friendShowing Quotes on reality
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To describe happiness is to diminish itShowing Quotes on reality
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Let us live for the beauty of our own realityShowing Quotes on reality
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Beauty is not caused. It isShowing Quotes on reality
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates themShowing Quotes on reality
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Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued themShowing Quotes on reality
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It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishlyShowing Quotes on reality
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatoryShowing Quotes on reality
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within usShowing Quotes on reality
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The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong wayShowing Quotes on reality
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That's the way the cookie crumblesShowing Quotes on reality
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A friend in need is a friend indeedShowing Quotes on reality
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A picture paints a thousand wordsShowing Quotes on reality
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All that glitters is not goldShowing Quotes on reality
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.Showing Quotes on reality
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Even a single hair casts a shadowShowing Quotes on reality
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energyShowing Quotes on reality
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.Showing Quotes on reality
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Ability is nothing without opportunityShowing Quotes on reality
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practiceShowing Quotes on reality
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True life is lived when tiny changes occurShowing Quotes on reality
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunishedShowing Quotes on reality
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Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativityShowing Quotes on reality
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the factsShowing Quotes on reality
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Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.Showing Quotes on reality
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When in doubt tell the truthShowing Quotes on reality
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I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be uglyShowing Quotes on reality
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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to knowShowing Quotes on reality
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happenedShowing Quotes on reality
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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.Showing Quotes on reality
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.Showing Quotes on reality
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Information is not knowledgeShowing Quotes on reality
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Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to beShowing Quotes on reality
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Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself.Showing Quotes on reality
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.Showing Quotes on reality
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmotherShowing Quotes on reality
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The value of life ist not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very littleShowing Quotes on reality
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