We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.


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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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In reality the universe has no geometry.
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We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with...
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If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEA...
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The supreme truth is that nothing ever is born.
GAUDAPADA
Create a vision for the life you really want and then work relentlessly towards making it a reality.
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The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For e...
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¿Cómo es el refrán? ¿Karma Sutra: ¿El destino te ha follado en todo tipo de modos creati...
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Being different is making the right difference in the life of everyone by bridging the difference le...
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Supervision is making the workable a reality.
RAYMOND OBENG
Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life ...
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It is more important to be free than to be happy.
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We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality
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The universe seeks equilibriums; it prefers to disperse energy, disrupt organization, and maximize c...
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a...
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We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.
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Reality is the course of nature that will never change in this universe
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The truth is, it's really only okay to be yourself if that self is within an accepted range of 'norm...
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Sometimes life could be quite ''hard'', but who in reality is making it harder for everyone? me or y...
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Our beliefs shape how we perceive reality to be, and the belief that shapes our current perception o...
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If someone tells you that they’re called “blueberries” because they’re berries and they’re...
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
IRIS MURDOCH
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
TONI CADE BAMBARA
Reality's what other people dream for you.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
A cloud is more real than all my thoughts.
MARTY RUBIN
In this universe, all we perceive is a virtual reality created by the neurons.
ABHIJIT NASKAR
reality is the perception of the world as you see it
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Science is great for us. But for someone who sees the humans for more than one million years, scienc...
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In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.
AL GOLDSTEIN
Growing up, we face new realities and have to make adjustments
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You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.
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The world should really try laughing more often, no matter how dark the joke is. The world is dark e...
J C A ROWE
If there are "Infinite Dimensions" then there would be infinite alternate
realities, and if the...
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Why would our brains have this capacity to sense the oneness of the universe, a sense that can be in...
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The distance between how we dream life is and how life is in reality, is up to you.
~ANYA SUNDQUIST~
Life is lonely only for those who wake up to utter reality.
ANUJ SOMANY
Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book.
ANGELA M. HUDSON
But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely,...
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Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.
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The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life com...
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And so the cycle goes: Evil lies within the tormented heart. Demons lie within the feeble mind; And ...
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Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.
DAVID LEVITHAN
Perception and reality are two different things.
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The reality is, risk is variable. Those in the financial world know it.
JASON FRIED
It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
MALLORY ORTBERG
Based upon quantum mechanics, our physical reality should not be solid. Most likely our physical rea...
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Despite winning the world championship, it has not altered the reality of the situation.
WAYNE HUIZENGA
There is in certain ancient things a trace
Of some dim essence --
More than form or weight...
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There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life...
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The real adventure is the reality of Life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.
MARY ELLEN MARK
Our world has changed since 911. The reality is we're not beyond being touched.
DON LEE
I think it is impossible for any Spaniard to imagine a World Cup without Spain. The reality is that ...
FERNANDO TORRES
Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my wil...
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I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing.
SIA
We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
BARRY DILLER
We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other th...
JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE
Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.
G.K. CHESTERTON
The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with....
JOHN HENCH
The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to real...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH
Lord, What a terrible shame. You're so attractive!'
I know, I want to tell her. It should have ...
LIZ JENSEN
Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Evie Snow
CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality.
ERIC PARSLOW
I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.
ANDREA CORR
The universe has inspired so many reasons behind the reasons we know!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Strangers were a fairytale full of
possibilities not yet corrupted by reality while caregivers...
DONNA LYNN HOPE
Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
The reality is there is a problem, even if it were only perception.
DOUG MEYER
What if reality (as perceived) were simply an extension of the self? Wouldn't that color the way eac...
DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI
The only person standing between your dreams and making them a reality is YOU.
VIKRMN
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unre...
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Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was...
TERRI WINDLING
The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
HANNAH ARENDT
Naturalism is the least subjective reality in this human world.
ABHIJIT NASKAR
It's not worth it to build castles on the sand if they get destroyed by the waves of reality.
MLADEN ĐORđEVIć
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
There is no need to hide the reality from the world.
FARID ABDULKADIR
Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
and both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal realit...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?
JANDY NELSON
...if you project the image you wish the world to see, eventually it will become reality.
TERA LYNN CHILDS
Today is an all powerful being,because it is capable of making your dreams witness reality.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unr...
HERMANN HESSE
Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the o...
DUANE MICHALS
He excused himself for a nap, and this day blended into his dreams like like years blended into a li...
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A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the ...
GEORGE MOORE
All realities can be played upon the very same piano.
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What is it that separates human beings from the so-called lower animals? Well, as I see it, its exac...
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Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon lear...
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We had a lot of young players this season. I thought they have improved over the course of the year....
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There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the...
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That's for God sure. People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
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Their desperate craving for simplicity sure can create complications. And their pitiful longing for ...
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Who knows how to make love stay?Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in B...
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Logic only gives man what he needs...Magic gives him what he wants.
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The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only ...
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When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results...
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To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
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The afternoon passed more slowly than a walnut-sized kidney stone.
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Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef
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Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
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I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys...
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To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
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On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth w...
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The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook th...
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Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.
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Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when ...
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There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this...
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Conversation between a princess and an outlaw:
"If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bai...
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There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ...
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If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe eve...
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Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential ...
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But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for...
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But do we know how to make love stay?'
I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play i...
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Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with...
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I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.
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At the typewriter you find out who you are.
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