"What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality."
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"Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it."
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"If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true."
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"The whole Jeffersonian ideal was that people are temporarily in government. Government is not the basic reality. People are. The private sector. And government is just a limited power to make things go better."
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"This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics."
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"In reality everybody has got musical thoughts. If you are able to overcome the part of it which is muscle training, which is what most musical playing actually is, performance actually is, is muscle training, and you are able to convert your ideas directly into music, you're a musician, too."
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"The information is there, you may not perceive it, but it does affect the lower orders. There are places where it just peaks out. It is like the color spectrum, it just simply goes beyond where you can perceive it any more but it is still going on. If you decide that the invisible continuation of the color spectrum is important to your sense of what reality is about, then you would want to extend it. Extend it as far as you could, as an aesthetic."
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"To be religious is to be sensitive to reality."
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"The reality is that I am the Teacher."
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"He provided the foundations of the park. All of the things that help give it that weird sense of reality are Fred's doing."
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"I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking."
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"People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up."
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"Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious."
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"I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage."
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"Don't forget to balance optimism with fact and belief with reality."
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"Think about the difference between how your local gas station and congressman respond to a spike in oil prices. One has the price placard outside changed to reflect the reality of the market within hours. The other sends out a press release, tries to organize a hearing, and at the end of amount accomplishes nothing. Meanwhile, the gas station has already made at least thirty additional adjustments to the realities of the market while your politico fails to get anything more than easy media."
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"Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product availability, etc. Government is typically cumbersome, plodding, and slow."
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"What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality."
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"Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront."
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"The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality."
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