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Quotes About Reality

A half empty bottle of wine is also half full, but half a lie will never be half true
~ Jean Cocteau
The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction, the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.
~ Jean Cocteau
El poeta es un mentiroso que siempre dice la verdad.
~ Jean Cocteau
Il y a une parte de vérité qui sort de nous que ce n'est pas le rêve, ce n'est pas la rêverie. .... C'est notre vrai moi, il est caché dans les ténèbres, il nous donne désordre....nous voulons travailler sans lui et est alors que nous commettons nos plus graves erreurs.
~ Jean Cocteau
I have always preferred mythology to history. Because history is made up of truths which eventually turn into lies. Mythology is made up of lies that eventually become truths.
~ Jean Cocteau
A half empty bottle of wine is also half full, but a half lie will never be half true
~ Jean Cocteau
At the circus, a careless mother may let her child take part in the experiments of a Chinese magician. He puts him in a box. He opens the box; it's empty. He closes it again. He opens it; the child reappears and goes back to his seat. Now it is no longer the same child. Nobody doubts it.
~ Jean Cocteau
tapestries to real animals.
~ Jean Cocteau
Unii sunt ocupaÅ£i cu absurda m?reÅ£ie a visului,în timp ce ceilalÅ£i f?ptuiesc ÅŸi nu viseaz?.Ceea ce provoac? pe nesimÅ£ite o circulaÅ£ie de unde contrarii pe care sufletul le înregistreaz?,în timp ce mintea nu-i capabil? de a le descifra.
~ Jean Cocteau
No matter how good somebody's life looks from the outside, you can be sure there's something about it you wouldn't want to have in your life.
~ Jean Ferris
How can you expect my character to be solidly real, to be anything other than obviously imaginary, when everything is contingent anyway? My Character has been deformed out of reality by his own nihilism, his own metaphysical nothingness.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
My existence was beginning to cause me serious concern. Was I a mere figment of the imagination?
~ Jean Paul Sartre
C'est tout pareil quand on a perdu l'illusion d'être eternel.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
El peligro de llevar un diario es que se exagera todo, uno esta al acecho, forzando continuamente la verdad
~ Jean Paul Sartre
There is no reality exception in action.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Qué tonto eres! Naturalmente, no he necesitado verte, si eso es lo que quieres decir. Ya sabes que no tienes nada regocijante para los ojos. Necesito que existas y que no cambies. Eres como ese metro de platino que se conserva en alguna parte, en París o en los alrededores. No creo que nadie haya tenido deseos de verlo.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
İnan bana, her ÅŸeye kendini kand?rmaya çal??madan bakmak, en iyisidir.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth
~ Jean Paul Sartre
MdÅ'oÅ›ci nie znajdujÄ… siÄ™ we mnie: czujÄ™ je tam na Å›cianie, na szelkach, wszÄ™dzie wokóÅ' mnie. ??czÄ… siÄ™ z kawiarniÄ…, to ja znajdujÄ™ siÄ™ w nich.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Cuando se hayan acostado juntos, habrá que buscar otra cosa para ocultar el enorme absurdo de la existencia. Con todo ..., ¿es absolutamente necesario engañarse?
~ Jean Paul Sartre
One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.
~ Jean Rhys
I thought if I told no one it might not be true.
~ Jean Rhys
Everything in their whole bloody world is a cliché. Everything is born out of a cliché, rests on a cliché, survives by a cliché. And they believe in the clichés - there's no hope.
~ Jean Rhys
I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under your eyes, your hair getting straight and lanky, the way people look at you. ... I didn't think it would be like this
~ Jean Rhys