"Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you."
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"The sensitive plate, the gas which is ionised, the fluorescent screen, are in reality receivers, into another kind of energy, chemical energy, ionic energy... luminous energy."
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"Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality."
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"Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a Speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one."
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"Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it."
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"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."
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"The truth is never pretty."
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"We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment, but a way to act."
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"No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else."
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"Never, under any conditions allow circumstances to determine your reality."
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"Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions."
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"Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion."
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"In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being."
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"What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people."
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"In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality."
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"The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible."
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"However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight."
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"Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies."
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"A theory must be tempered with reality."
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"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."
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