"Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real."
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"Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation."
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"The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness."
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"All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue."
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"While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many."
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"You know your real nature [to be divine]. You are the king and play you are a beggar. . . . It is all fun. Know it and play. That is all there is to it. Then practice it. The whole universe is a vast play."
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"The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic policy almost wholly surrendered to special interests."
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"My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies."
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"To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."
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"It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not."
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"It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real."
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"... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!"
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"Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened."
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"When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. That's my middle-west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow."
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"If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration."
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"We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it?"
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"The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we think is real. We live for it; we're enslaved by it. And it will ultimately be our undoing."
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"I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything."
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"But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will."
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"I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff."
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