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“Meanwhile, I have started carrying a small spiral-top notepad and a black pen with me. I am in need of a new system for processing reality.”

Book:State of Paradise

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“I ask the woman in white if it bothers her to peddle books that have nothing real or true to say about the world. "Please," she says, with a flick of the hand. "Real and true are overrated, in this line of work. Haven't you seen what it's like out there? Real and true are what people read to get away from.”

Reality Truth Fantasy Books Escape Escapism Fantastic Literature

Book:State of Paradise

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“(On imagination vs. reality) Our waking minds can only draw from what we’ve already seen. We splice and rearrange, but it’s always something familiar. But what I experienced took everything away from me—yet I was still conscious. It was extremely liberating, to exist without the familiar markers that define the world of form.”

Reality Imagination Consciousness Awareness Perception Liberation Metaphysical Beyond Form Inner Experience Mind And Thought

Book:Two Seconds of Eternity: An Experience in Another Dimension

Source: Two Seconds of Eternity: An Experience in Another Dimension

“If I see and think and swim the reflection, it is because at the other extreme there is the sun that casts its rays. Only the origin of what is matters: something that my gaze cannot face except in an attenuated form, as in this sunset. All the rest is reflection among reflections, me included.”

Reality Perception

Book:Mr Palomar

Source: Mr Palomar

“They're academics, surveyors, researchers, not action-hero explorers from the serials I liked because they were unrealistic and not depressing and sordid like reality.”

Reality Tv Shows Escapism All Systems Red

Book:All Systems Red [Dramatized Adaptation]

Source: All Systems Red [Dramatized Adaptation]

“I grabbed his hand and how everything seemed to be alright rather than the depressing reality it truly was.”

Love Life Reality Truth Depression Thoughts Depressed

Author:Dominic Riccitello

“When you get right down to it everything is not a cube. You can look around and see that.”

Philosophy Humor Reality Mysticism Everything Esotericism Cube

Book:Gringos

Source: Gringos

“This allegory, known as Plato’s Cave, is a powerful illustration of a simple truth: what we take to be reality might only be a shadow.”

Reality Truth Perception Illusion Shadow Simulation Jung Plato S Cave

Book:The Council of Gods

Source: The Council of Gods

“Truth does not tremble before kings, nor beg the approval of crowds.”

Inspirational Philosophy Wisdom Reality Truth Truth Quotes Falsehood King Crowd

Author:Aloo Denish Obiero

“Isn’t that all identity is? The face the world lets you wear, the voice it doesn’t question, the name it echoes back without a stutter.”

Reality Identity Horror Survival Memory Chosen Haunting Dissociation Mirror Glitch

Book:Returning My Face: A Chilling Sci-Fi Thriller Where Someone Wants to Erase You and Live the Life They Always Wanted

Source: Returning My Face: A Chilling Sci-Fi Thriller Where Someone Wants to Erase You and Live the Life They Always Wanted

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”

Humor Funny Humanity

Author:George Carlin

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