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Quotes About Reality

Stories are just things we fabricate, nothing more. We search for them in a world beside our own, then leave them here to be found, garments shed by ghosts.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Like most people, he believed that lies, no matter how often you told them, never became truth.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
The open secret of the clock, naked for all to see, was that we were only going in circles. After
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Those who believe in revolutions are the ones who haven't lived through one yet.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
And there you have the absurdity.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
He was a relatively innocent man, which was the best one could hope for in this world.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
It was a little past nine o'clock when I checked my watch at the entrance to his apartment building, a gray two-story factory for manufacturing hundreds of tired replicas of the American Dream. All the inmates imagined their dreams to be unique, but they were merely tin reproductions of a lost original.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.
~ Vijay Seshadri
And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.
~ Vikas Swarup
The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.
~ Vikram Chandra
Vikram Chandra
~ Unknown
Don't deceive yourself with you age, it is just a number.
~ Unknown
Even God cannot satisfy everyone.
~ Unknown
God is not so powerful as you think nor can he do everything as you believe.
~ Unknown
Heaven is exactly where you are, hell is exactly where you are, now tell me exactly where you are.
~ Unknown
Life is the trump card of love and love is the wild card of reality.
~ Unknown
Many people sow rice in their fields and expect to harvest maize.
~ Unknown
No matter how beautiful the shoes are, they still have to go on the ground.
~ Unknown
Putting wings on your body can't make you an eagle.
~ Unknown
There are people who plant thorns in their garden expecting to gather roses.
~ Unknown
Your dreams become illusion when you are working in the opposite with your shadow.
~ Unknown
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite.
~ Vilfredo Pareto
It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.
~ Vince Flynn