“On the other side of graduation was her actual life, the slow narrowing of possibilities that would catch her and freeze her… — Ling Ma Copy Share Image
“Perchance, dear reader, you will then believe that nothing is stranger and madder than actual life, and that this is all that… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas, the experience gained from actual life… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians.… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained form actual life is… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“It is essential that a work of art should be self-consistent, that an artist should consciously or unconsciously draw a circle beyond… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the… — Polybius Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The only times I get uncomfortable is when people are looking into my actual life, just because, like anybody, there's tons of… — Alex G Copy Share Image
“The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We know how to dream beautifully! And in our dreams we are always extraordinarily active! We cross oceans, found colonies, introduce ideal… — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
“You can’t even read American fiction to get a sense of how actual life is lived these days. You read American fiction… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“The group of artists and scientists that had so far done least was the one that had attracted the greatest interest—and the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“The simple fact of the matter is that trying to be perfectly likable is incompatible with loving relationships. Sooner or later, for… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Work in classrooms isn’t significant work; it fails to satisfy real needs pressing on the individual; it doesn’t answer real questions experience… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“In this I conformed to my usual manner of thinking in symbols; this because the things of the invisible world attract me… — Ibn al-Arabi Copy Share Image
