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• Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.

  E. M. Forster

  Real, Journey, Soul

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• Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Time, Memories, Real

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• Life can seem rather unreal at times. Alive and well and loving one day. No longer there the next.

  Richard Branson

  Life, One Day, Alive

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• Did Buddha teach that the many was real and the ego unreal, while orthodox Hinduism regards the One as the real, and the many as unreal?" the Swami was asked. "Yes", answered the Swami. "And what Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and I have added to this is, that the Many and the One are the same Reality, perceived by the same mind at different times and in different attitudes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Attitude, Real, Ego

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3717, Manonmani Publishers

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• If you are really feeling happy, you are feeling happy even if the whole world contradicts you. If the whole world agrees that you are not happy, then too it doesn't matter. Your happiness is real. It cannot be canceled by anybody's opinion. But if your happiness is unreal, it can be canceled by anybody. Even a small child can cancel it. You will be constantly looking towards people. You will be smiling, trying to show that you are happy so that they can say, 'Yes. You are very happy. You look very happy.'

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Children, Real

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• Many times people come to me to be reassured. They ask, they say, 'I'm feeling very happy and blissful. What do you say?' What is the need to say anything? The very need shows that the happiness is unreal and imaginary.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, People, Feelings

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• Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are manmade; therefore they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as be wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Attitude, War

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, insubstantial, or illusory because they do not so exist. We merely state that the reality of these nonhuman realms differs from that of human existence, whose primary characteristic is Da-sein (literally being-the-there)... Man as man is present... in a manner wholly different from... inanimate things.

  Medard Boss

  Animal, Reality, Men

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• Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most familiar face- even my own- become ghostly, unreal, enigmatic. I get into an attitude of almost total scepticism, nescience, solipsism, in a world of dumb, sphinx-like things that cannot explain themselves. The discovery of how I am situated- a sentient being on a globe in space overshadows me. I wish I were just nothing.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Attitude, Thinking, Space

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there’s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from a book slowly does nothing to rob the words of their power. A film presents images; a book creates images inside the reader, with the reader’s active participation. Books are good for your brain.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Reading, Air

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• Since things neither exist nor do not exist, are neither real nor unreal, are utterly beyond adopting and rejecting - one might as well burst out laughing.

  Longchenpa

  Buddhist, Laughter, Real

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• The economy and its dismal status is the result of policy decisions that Obama has made and put into place. It's not the quirk of fate. It's not that America's best days are over. It's not that America's past was a fad or a quirk. It's not that the great economic days of the eighties were illegitimate or unreal. It's not that this is the new normal. It's not that all of the greatness in the past was undeserved. It is precisely because of Obama policies implemented since 2009 that this country is in the shape it's in.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Fate, Past

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Beautiful, Summer, Spring

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1914). “Friends O' Mine: A Book of Poems and Stories”

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• I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

  Max Beckmann

  Real, Mean, Enough Already

  Max Beckmann (2013). “On My Painting - Max Beckmann”, p.8, Tate Enterprises Ltd

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• I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.

  Peter Sellers

  Feels, Screens

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• All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.

  John Fowles

  Real, Two, Novelists

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• Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion and detached from the reality of my unreal environment. I was an instrument in a virtual world that constantly renewed its own meaningless image in a living world that was itself perceived outside of nature. And since the appearance of things was no longer definitive but limitless, this paradisiacal awareness freed me from the reality external to myself. The fire and the rose, as it were, became one.

  Federico Fellini

  Reality, Fire, Rose

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• It's untrue to say the colors I use are not those of reality. They are real: The red I use is red; the green, green; blue, blue; and yellow, yellow. It's a matter of arranging them differently from the way I find them, but they are always real colors. So it's not true that when I tint a road or a wall, they become unreal. They stay real, though colored differently for my scene.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Wall, Real, Blue

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Real, Character, People

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train to the airport or a taxi. Describing characters living in the real world requires describing them engaging with money. There are also so many emotional aspects to money - feelings of inadequacy, feelings of security. I am not sure if there needs to be more about money in fiction, but the absence of this aspect can make a story feel somehow frictionless and unreal.

  Akhil Sharma

  Real, Moving, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that engage them, then you are reduced to writing about spectacular unreal people. You know, James Bond or something, and you cook up adventures.

  John Updike

  Adventure, Writing, Issues

  "Two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction". American Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.

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• Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.

  Beth Ditto

  People, Existence, Mundane

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It was one of those things where you admire and respect a person, and you watch them for almost your entire life - and Meryl Streep was definitely one of those people that inspired me throughout my career. Having a chance to have a scene with her was pretty unreal.

  Cameron Monaghan

  People, Chance, Inspired

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job.

  Valeria Lukyanova

  Jobs, Mean, Good Job

  "Real-Life Barbie Documentary: Valeria Lukyanova, ‘Living Barbie,’ Featured By Vice". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

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• When people want to be rid of Heaven it is logical to start by creating an atmosphere in which spiritual things appear out of place; in order to be able to declare successfully that God is unreal they have to construct around man a false reality, a reality that is inevitably inhuman because only the inhuman can exclude God. What is involved is a falsification of the imagination and so its destruction.

  Frithjof Schuon

  Spiritual, Reality, Men

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