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“I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is.”

Book:The Fire Next Time

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“I leaned against my door, struggling to catch my breath, and thought that maybe hell wasn't a place at all, but a thing. A contagious thing. A thing that could creep up the steps, seep through the crack under my door, grow horns and sprout fire - smelling faintly like sulfur. A thing that could sink its tendrils inside and take root, coloring everything gray and distorting a smile into a sneer. And while i got dressed for the play, swatted at my back and kept running my hands over my stomach because I could feel it, I swear, I could feel it reaching for me, trying to grab hold.”

Reality Hell

Book:Fracture

Source: Fracture

“The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits.”

Reality Contemplation Future Plans

Author:Laurence Gonzales

“Blind, broke, jobless, and frustrated, Kevin found it difficult to get through the following few months. But he had one big thing going for him. He was sober. It was a new beginning.”

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Book:Unblinded: One Man’s Courageous Journey Through Darkness to Sight

Source: Unblinded: One Man’s Courageous Journey Through Darkness to Sight

“The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.”

Life Reality Mystery Misattributed To Kierkegaard

Author:Jacobus Johannes Leeuw

“You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless.”

Life Reality Reasoning Lesson

Book:Masquerade

Source: Masquerade

“I was beginning to see the danger in adhering to a single narrative, hewing to a story. The peril wasn't only in getting it wrong. It was a kind of calcification, a narrowing, a perversion of reality that hardened and stilled the spirit.”

Reality Narrative Story

Book:Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

Source: Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

“I could no longer discern what was real and what was fake. Everything, including the present, seemed to be both too much and nothing at all.”

Reality Overwhelmed Dissociation

Book:The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

Source: The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.”

Dream Reality

Book:Our man in Havana

Source: Our man in Havana

“In this stillness that is at the same time movement, in this darkness that is at the same time light, change is found not in the realm of ideas but in the energizing desire that is realized through precipitation. Desire tends towards its own realization and change takes place when the desire for it shatters the bounds of the possible, breaking the dialectical equilibrium holding together the framework of what is existent. It is at such moments that the imaginary flows into the real and overwhelms it, inundating it until it has been absorbed.”

Reality Desire Imaginary Surrealism

Book:Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World

Source: Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World

“There is nothing like ‘within’ or ‘without.’ Both mean either the same thing or nothing.”

Reality Realization

Author:Ramana Maharshi

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