#real

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations. ↗

— Alan Moore

#poor

Il faut que l’homme s’évade de cette lice ridicule qu’on lui a faite: le prétendu réel actuel avec la perspective d’un réel futur qui ne vaille guère mieux. Chaque minute pleine porte en elle-même la négation de siècles d’histoire boitillante et cassée. Ceux à qui il appartient de faire virevolter ces huit flamboyants au-dessus de nous ne le pourront qu’avec de la sève pure._ Manifestes du surréalisme ↗

— André Breton

#freedom #philosophy #surrealism #art

I am who I am and that's who I am ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#reality #present

As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#beauty #mysticism #reality #spirituality #art

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that. ↗

— Alice Walker

#been #being #byproduct #come #fairly

The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does not exist in all the universe. ↗

— P.S. Baber

#drama #fate #real #stage #theater

Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#illusion #mindfulness #reality #thinking #thoughts

And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke. ↗

— Syd Barrett

#joke #life #reality #syd-barrett #truth

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#flaws #love #realizations #sydney-sage #love

Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists. ↗

— Joseph T. Hallinan

#depression #psychology #realists #psychology