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“The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when they are not.”

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Author:Simon Blackburn

“We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not that we refuse to relinquish hope as a species. The amazing thing is that we're right to hold on to hope. The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy. ... Obviously not all stories end happily. We don't always have good fortune, but hope gives us, as a species and as individuals, what we otherwise wouldn't have: A chance.”

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Author:John Green

“Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person.”

Source: One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.”

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Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.”

Reality Broken Concepts Wholeness

Book:A Pluralistic Universe

Source: A Pluralistic Universe

“As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine then fiercely weave stark-and-broken realities into luminous dream-like narratives on the game of life.”

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Author:Wanda Coleman

“The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it.”

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Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Today China is a first world economy, in terms of development. The U.S. may still be in first in GDP but it is a broken economy in reality.”

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Author:Alejandro Castro Espin

“The politics is broken up and down. And Trump may emerge from a reality TV world that is much more powerful than we think. And there is the prospect that this is where we are, which is an horrific thought.”

Thinking World Reality Powerful Broken Horrific

Author:David Brooks

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”

“The reason 'closure' is a cliche is that it is used too often, too imprecisely, and doesn't in any case reflect reality. In reality, such closure in broken friendships and much else in life is rarely achieved; only death brings closure and then not always for those still living.”

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Author:Joseph Epstein

“Accepting the reality of our broken, flawed lives is the beginning of spirituality not because the spiritual life will remove our flaws but because we let go of seeking perfection and, instead, seek God, the one who is present in the tangledness of our lives.”

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Book:Messy Spirituality

Source: Messy Spirituality

“In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations.”

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Author:Jean-Paul Sartre