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• He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Real, Video, World

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• Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.

  Wallace Stevens

  Beautiful, Mother, Flower

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• what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.

  Tom Robbins

  Ideas, People, Goal

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• The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible.  What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Firsts, Duty

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.120, Wordsworth Editions

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• Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

  Stephen King

  Symbolism, Profundity

  "22 lessons from Stephen King on how to be a great writer". www.businessinsider.com. September 16, 2016.

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• artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity

  Albert Einstein

  Stupidity, Natural

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• No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter 'Did you have a nice vacation?' 'Oh, yes, and you?' I'll stay here and try to pin that loneliness down.

  Sylvia Plath

  Nice, Loneliness, Vacation

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.18, Anchor

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• …I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

  Roberto Bolano

  Saws, Should, Feels

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• Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a snow of butterflies coming out of a conjurer's skull. Dada is stillness and does not understand the passions.

  Tristan Tzara

  Buddhist, Passion, Butterfly

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• I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. There’s nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela in the midst of a group of people. Do you know what she reminds me of? A fragrant rose in a bouquet of artificial flowers.

  Jorge Amado

  Believe, Flower, Discovery

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• I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of these years were discarded like badly fitting clothes. I parted from them without pain and all that remained was to wonder that I could have endured them so long.

  Hermann Hesse

  Pain, Years, Clothes

  Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

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• The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

  Booker T. Washington

  Struggle, Race, Progress

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• Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Real, Needs

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• The angel said, "I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Prayer, Angel, Black And White

  Jonathan Carroll (2008). “The Ghost in Love: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan

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• The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it's privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In Econ 101, they teach that the big-picture fight over national priorities is guns versus butter. Now it's butter versus margarine—guns get a pass. Overall, we're weaker for it, and at enormous cost.

  Rachel Maddow

  Fighting, Gun, America

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• We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Fake People, Real, Thinking

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, David Kessler (2012). “Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Then your fingers moved down to my chin. You pushed it up with your thumb to look at me, almost like you were studying me in the artificial lights above my head. And, I mean, you really looked at me … with eyes like two stars. [...] And I had wings fluttering away inside me all right. Big fat moth wings. You trapped me easily, drew me toward you like I was already in the net.

  Lucy Christopher

  Stars, Mean, Eye

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.10, Scholastic Inc.

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• When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Real, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.233, Modern Library

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• There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.

  Terry Goodkind

  Thinking, Effort, Liberty

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Faith Of The Fallen”, p.514, Head of Zeus

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• What's next? If there are vampires in there, they probably drink artificial blood plasma substitute.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Blood, Vampire, Next

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Stolen”, p.56, Vintage Canada

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• No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.

  Philip K. Dick

  Fate, Chaos, Structure

  Philip K. Dick (2013). “Galactic Pot-Healer”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Passion, Order

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind of rather repugnant artificial triangle, thereby stifling the whole of sexuality as a production of desire so as to recast it along entirely different lines, making of it a ‘dirty little secret’, a dirty little family secret, a private theater rather than the fantastic factory of nature and production

  Gilles Deleuze

  Dirty, Secret, Desire

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• Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Wall, Spring, Rain

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.148, e-artnow

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• As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I have known have had many virtues and have taken me to live in many places I have come to love, they have never been John Wayne, and they have never taken me to the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow. Deep in that part of my heart where artificial rain forever falls, that is still the line I want to hear.

  Joan Didion

  Growing Up, Rain, Fall

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 08, 2011

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