"Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire."
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"Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself."
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"His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in."
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"The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable."
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"He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities."
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"And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams."
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"The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it."
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"Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life."
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"The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality."
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"If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth."
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"This is not an industry in which you curl up in a ball and shy away from the realities. It's a time to scream to the clouds that we're here and we've got great values and great prices. What better time to do that than the Super Bowl?"
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"There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight."
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"I think prices have been moving more on speculation than reality. But this is a market that has been driven by fear for two or three years."
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"Today's enterprise IT architecture is about integrating systems to meet business needs. Consequently, IT architects can't - and don't - live in a vacuum. To address that reality, Catalyst Conference 2006 will delve into strategic infrastructure technologies with the depth to which our clients have grown accustomed. With the larger number of Cross-Cutting Concerns sessions, we'll also clearly illustrate how these technologies relate to each other, and how roles, geographies, and business processes intersect within an enterprise."
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"The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work."
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"My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality."
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"Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone."
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"Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality."
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"It's horrible. We had an eight-game win streak going. We were all high and happy and everything is good. It's kind of a reality check. We have to get back and start working again. ... We just didn't bring it tonight."
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"It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears."
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