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Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

“Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms”

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Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer, poet, and literary critic. His works are known for their unique fantasy and philosophical thinking, which have had a profound impact on 20th-century literature. more

“You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Paty, which is collective and immortal.”

Thinking Mind Believe Humans Self Reality Individual Mistake Cases Assuming Objectives Making Mistakes Collectives Immortal Human Mind Evident

Book:1984

Source: 1984

“To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into... rhetoric and plot.”

Mean Real Sometimes Reality Creation Serious Enjoyment Plot Rhetoric Holding On Escaping Serious Business

Book:Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance - a topic we should never discuss: the very name of love is an apple of discord between us. If the reality were required, what should we do? How should we feel? My dear cousin, abandon your scheme of marriage - forget it.”

Ifs Feels Should Reality Names Forget Love Is Dear Apples Abandon Schemes Topics Cousin Forget It Discord Variance

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life.”

Men Mind States Reality Form House Existence Building He Man Statements Symbols Gestures

Book:The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.”

Thinking Reality Possibility

Author:Alice Hoffman

“True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.”

Persons Ideas Reality Individual Truth Is Establishment Initials

Author:Willard Libby

“I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.”

Thinking Knows Important Matter Reality Truth Subjects Directors Majors Scripts Subject Matter

Author:Robert Wise

“Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.”

Life Inspirational Different Reality Science Teach Technology Connections Description Engineering Relativity

Author:Albert Einstein

“Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.”

Ifs World Believe Reality Political Easy Interest Deals Wonderful Achieve Program Accomplish Candidates Wonderful Things Advocating Make Believe

Author:Fred Barnes

“What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.”

Giving Kind Hard Reality Interesting

Author:Liza Minnelli

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