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Reality Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given day to weigh…
- The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.
- The honour of physical decline is waiting, and you have to get used to that reality.
- When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.
- And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their…
- 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…
- Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me.…
- It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.
- There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might…
- I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without…
- I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.
- In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions.…
- We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is…
- What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.
- And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.
- It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).
- We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us…
- Reality was utterly coolheaded and utterly lonely.
- It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might…
- It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.
- Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always…
- Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.
- Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!
- If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!
- In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to…
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships… — J. J. Abrams
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. — Neil Armstrong
- Journalism is literature in a hurry. — Matthew Arnold
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov