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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest thought, action is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go
Any mental activity is easy if it does not need to take reality into account
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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