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“I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.”

Ifs World Life Facts Dream Found Lost Fiction This World Cost Senses Features Predictions Beard Unreal

Author:Maya Angelou

“Crazy isn´t always what they say it is. It´s not always the old woman wearing sneakers and a skirt and a scarf, wandering around with a shopping cart, hollering at no one, nothing, tumbling through years in her head. No. Sometimes it is a girl wearing boots and jeans and a sweater, arms crossed in front of her, shivering, wandering through the streets at night, all night, murmuring to no one, nothing, tumbling through the strange unreal dimensions in her head.”

“Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended”

May Real Turns Unreal Real Friendship

Book:The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot

Source: The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot

“Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.”

Feelings Hours Records Four Happened Twenties Unreal Nostalgic

Book:Boy Toy

Source: Boy Toy

“My fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal. I have a rosy sky and a green flowery Eden in my brain; but without, I am perfectly aware, lies at my feet a rough tract to travel, and around me gather black tempests to encounter.”

Wells Lying Black Forget Brain Vision Feet Sky Fine Green Encounters Deceit Rough Unreal Eden Tempest Rosy

Book:Jane Eyre, an Autobiography: Top 100 Classic Novels

Source: Jane Eyre, an Autobiography: Top 100 Classic Novels

“and I think that everything in life is kind of unreal, isn't it?”

Thinking Kind Life Is Unreal

Author:James Patterson

“Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.”

Knows Moments Reality Sea Slips Drag Unreal Irrationality Iceberg

Author:Terence McKenna

“Once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.”

Real Lasts Self Esteem Unreal Real You

Book:The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real

Source: The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real

“But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer anything but a gigantic simulacrum - not unreal, but simulacrum, that is to say never exchanged for the real, but exchanged for itself, in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference.”

Ifs Real Whole What If Unreal Circuits Simulacrum

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom you haven't met yet, all the choices you are going to have to make, everything you might achieve, and all the possible failures – unreal now? The future flaps round my head like a cloud of midges.”

People Matter Might Choices Achieve Fronts Havens Mets Rounds Clouds Heavy Unreal Midges

Author:A. S. Byatt

“I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making me fall. And I run through a world that is rotating, conscious of the earth's spin, of our planet twirling as it careens through nothingness, of the stars spiraling above, of the uncertainty of everything, even ground, even sky. Mumtaz never calls out, although a thousand and one voices scream in my mind, sing, whisper, taunt me with madness.”

Source: Moth Smoke

“My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in which I fade away for my eyes restores me as a complete image for the unreal eye to which I deny all images. A complete image with reference to a world devoid of image which imagines me in the absence of any imaginable figure. The being of a nonbeing of which I am the infinitely small negation which it instigates as its profound harmony. In the night shall I become the universe?”

World Eye Night Universe Views Imagine Figures Perspective Harmony Profound Deny Point Of View Absence Supreme Fades Unreal Fade Away Negation

Author:Maurice Blanchot

“The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal. Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.”

Moments Reality Past Memories Vision Plans Tree Objects Realism Our Memories Unreal Lag

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Really unreal world, will you perhaps do the breathing for me while I am away?”

World Breathing Unreal Unreal World

Author:e. e. cummings

“No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.”

Giving Real Turns Giving Up Unreal

Book:Teatro Grottesco

Source: Teatro Grottesco

“But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.”

Ifs Knows Trying Persons Important Stories Seems Middle Like You Roots Puzzles Unreal

Book:And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits.”

World Feels Different Dark Alive Fragile Unreal Replica

Book:Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion

Source: Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion

“Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations? Are we all in fact unloving and unloveable? Then one is alone, and if one is alone Then lover and beloved are equally unreal And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.”

Ifs Life Real Facts Dream Imagination Lovers Beloved Dreamer Unreal Only Love

Author:T. S. Eliot

“The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.”

Real Music Jazz Unreal Real You Unreal World

Author:John Lennon

“One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.”

Knows Wish Yoga Ideals Oneself Transformed Unreal Knowing Oneself

Book:The First and Last Freedom

Source: The First and Last Freedom

“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.”

People Believe Wells Ideas Real Lasts Dies Belief Perfect Powerful Fantasy Imagine Ignorance Concepts Stones Woods Choke Unreal

Book:Choke: A Novel

Source: Choke: A Novel

“With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.”

“To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.”

Thinking Sometimes Trouble Guilt Golf Truthful Golfers Unreal Being Truthful

Author:Colin Montgomerie

“Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it.”

Should Crazy Prove Mad Bother Unreal Prove It

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was attacking the hoop and hitting jumpers inside 20 feet. Kobe's range is unreal, and he does it his way.”

Thinking Way Doe Three Games Lines Feet Basketball Performances Incredibles Range Comparison Hitting Attacking Unreal Jumpers

Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.”

Dream Earth Life Is Humanity Race Darkness Creatures Illusion Shadow Weak Woods Mortals Unfortunate Clay Unreal Frail Chained Foliage

Book:The Birds

Source: The Birds

“There is no reality except the one contained within us.”

Philosophy Reality Unreal Demian Unreal World

Book:Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

“What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade. Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be he creator or consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our law-rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother's morals - only of his rights.”

“There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago.”

World Different Happens Past Five Atheism Minutes Events Happenings Connections Population Remembered Logical Hypothesis Impossibility Five Minutes Unreal Different Times

Book:The Analysis of Mind

Source: The Analysis of Mind

“The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard -it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.”

Knows Men Love Should Ideas Facts Nations Heard Dangerous Concern True Love Marketing Absurd Boards Unreal Only Love Love One Another Portugal Peru

Author:E. M. Forster

“The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No assumption is too unreal, no end is too unpractical for him.”

Men Want Ends Culture Simple Alive He Man Equal Mortals Cute Assumption Unreal Poorest Good Sense Pedantry

Book:Order and Progress

Source: Order and Progress

“A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.”

Sides Responsibility Liberty Paper Libertarian Libertarianism Sheets Unreal

Author:Felix Morley

“With trees and rocks and the sea and the stars and the clouds and the sun - you cannot be unreal, you cannot be phoney. You HAVE to be real because when you are encountering nature, nature creates something in you which is natural. Responding to nature continuously, you become natural.”

Real Stars Natural Sun Tree Sea Rocks Integrity Clouds Being Real Unreal Responding

Author:Rajneesh

“We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this.”

Needs Giving Real Self Helping Term Realizing Religious Powerful Practice Habit Giving Up Self Realization Realization Unreal Religious Practices

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad”

People Mind Criticism Critics Protest Unreal Of My Mind

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.”

People Use Spiritual Literature Differences Awareness Spiritual Life Justification Indulge Unreal Indulge In Glorification

Author:Andrew Cohen

“In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse-quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up.”

Source: Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism

“Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.”

Real Matter Spirit Eternal Eternity Unreal

Author:Mary Baker Eddy

“There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal.”

Ifs Ideas Form United Existence Mystery Movement Losing Infinite Meetings Contradiction Infinity Stillness Finite Unreal

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity -namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.”

“If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.”

People Ifs Thinking World Way Grateful Lasting Unreal

Book:Choke: A Novel

Source: Choke: A Novel

“They never tell a lie, not a small fabrication, not a partial truth, nor any gross unreal statement. No lies at all, so they have nothing to hide. They are a group of people who are not afraid to have their minds open.”

People Inspirational Mind Lying Groups Statements Not Afraid Gross Unreal Fabrication Partial Truth

Book:Mutant Message Down Under

Source: Mutant Message Down Under

“I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to reflect: I am a mirror. Logic does not exist for me. I float on the waves of art and life and never really know how to distinguish what belongs to the one or the other or what is common to both. Life unfolds for me like a theatre presenting a sequence of somewhat unreal sentiments; while the things of art are real to me and go straight to my heart.”

Thinking Knows Heart Doe Art Real Common Know How Talent My Heart Weakness Logic Mirrors Wave Theatre Idiot Sentiments Laziness Floats Sequence Unreal Presenting Art And Life

Author:Sviatoslav Richter

“I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.”

People Ifs Thinking Should I Can Hate Song Music Watches Break Middle Singing Yeah Dance Musical Destroying Unreal Dance Floor Funny Music Music And Life Music Is My Life

Author:Zachary Levi

“I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.”

Firsts Believe Fans Letters Als Unreal

Author:Christopher Plummer

“Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing - and that was a sad moment for me because I wanted to stay in this beautiful, unreal world.”

Knows World Looks Moments Wanted Past Beautiful Used Half Four Doctors Clock Real World Doctor Who Unreal Rehearsing Unreal World Sad Moments

Author:Tom Baker

“It happened while I was filming “Water for Elephants in which my partner is Reese Witherspoon. We had a scene with elephants but there were so many paparazzi around that it was scaring the animals and it was impossible to film. Out of the blue, fans, that were waiting for autographs, had enough and circled around the paparazzi. Teens made big guys run away. It was unreal! I was pleased.”

“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.”

Source: Brave New World Revisited

“Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the real from the unreal, to give visions body, to penetrate into unknown transparencies.”

Giving Trying Two Real Body Night Vision Sun Impossible Thousand Six Studios Extremes Shakes Penetrate Transparency Day And Night Unreal

Book:Blumenfeld, my one hundred best photos

Source: Blumenfeld, my one hundred best photos

“The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse. By Jove! I've never seen anything so unreal in my life. And outside, the silent wilderness surrounding this cleared speck on the earth struck me as something great and invincible, like evil or truth, waiting patiently for the passing away of this fantastic invasion.”

Source: Heart of Darkness and Other Tales

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