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Reality Quotes by Jean Cocteau
- True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
- History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
- Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
- I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
- When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because…
- The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.
More Reality Quotes
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- 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