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"AS SOMBRAS DA ALMA. THE SHADOWS OF THE SOUL. The stories others tell about you and the stories you tell about yourself: which come closer to the truth? Is it so clear that they are your own? Is one an authority on oneself? But that isn't the question that concerns me. The real question is: In such stories, is there really a difference between true and false? In stories about the outside, surely. But when we set out to understand someone on the inside? Is that a trip that ever comes to an end? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?"

Real Soul Differences
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Eric Allen Writer
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"If you Need to convince others that you’re happy, then you have Not found real Joy. If you Need to impress others with material objects, then you do Not understand true Wealth. If you Need to correct others, then you have Not looked in the mirror. If you Need to put others down, you have Not connected to your Higher Self. Know Yourself. Be Honest with Yourself. Don’t be a teacher or judge, be an... Example."

Real Teacher Mirrors
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being."

Giving Real Adventure
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Richard Bach Author
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"If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats."

Real Character Practice
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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material."

Real Political Disease
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children."

Children Real Peace
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Immanuel Wallerstein Sociologist
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"Are there still other possibilities? Of course there are. What is important to recognize is that all three historical options are really there, and the choice will depend on our collective world behavior over the next fifty years. Whichever option is chosen, it will not be the end of history, but in a real sense its beginning. The human social world is still very young in cosmological time. In 2050 or 2100, when we look back at capitalist civilization, what will we think?"

Thinking Years Real
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Francis Ford Coppola Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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"One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something"

Real Pleasure Jet Planes
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Francis Ford Coppola Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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"Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the memorable moments in movies and plays."

Real Creativity Memorable
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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present."

People Believe Real
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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist
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"Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation. It burns, because it knows the true meaning of sacrifice. It is life illuminated."

Real Love Is Sacrifice
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Jerry Garcia Musician
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"We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it's not OK to take drugs? Blah, blah, blah. What's a crime? What's criminality? What can you do, what can't you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn't really make sense."

Real Confusion Confusing
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Joe Hill Labor Activist, Songwriter
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"... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on."

People Real Imagination
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Jordan Peele Filmmaker, Actor
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"Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way."

Real Powerful Issues
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