"Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality."
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"What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life."
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"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
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"Every morning, I shall concern myself anew about the boundary, Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No, And pressing forward honor reality. We cannot avoid, Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion, To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully."
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"Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences."
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"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality."
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"Never let someone’s opinion become your reality. Never sacrifice who you are because someone else has a problem with it. Love who you are inside and out."
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"Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction."
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"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."
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"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive."
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"Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world."
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"The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process."
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"Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts."
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"Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality."
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"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."
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"Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality..."
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"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule."
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"Our soul, our true self, is the most mysterious, essential, and magical dimension of our being. In fact, it is not a separate reality, as traditional Western thought views it, but the cohesive force that unites our body, heart, and mind. It is not a ghost trapped somehow in the physical machinery of our body but the very essence of our being."
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"True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz of commercial distraction and false social realities. We have to retreat into our own cocoons and come face-to-face with who we are. We have to turn toward our own inner darkness. For only by abandoning its attachments and facing the darkness does the caterpillar's body begin to spread out and its light, beautiful wings begin to form."
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"Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling."
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