Quotes About Reality

After a time, she believed in the reality of this comedy

Even Émile Zola was reduced to disingenuously commenting on the work's formal qualities rather than acknowledging the subject matter. He paid tribute to Manet's honesty, however, "When our artists give us Venuses, they correct nature, they lie. Édouard Manet asked himself why lie, why not tell the truth; he introduced us to Olympia, this fille of our time, whom you meet on the sidewalks.

Il serait beaucoup plus intéressant de comparer cette peinture simplifiée avec les gravures japonaises qui lui ressemblent par leur élégance étrange et leurs taches magnifiques. L'impression première que produit une toile d'Edouard Manet est un peu dure. On n'est pas habitué à voir des traductions aussi simples et aussi sincères de la réalité.

Tais-toi, rêveuse ! Tu me fais trembler ... Tu te briseras les os, en retombant sur terre.

I want to depict the artist's struggle with reality, the sheer effort of creation which goes into every work of art, the blood and tears involved in giving of one's flesh, in trying to make something that lives...the endless the defeats, the struggle with the angel.' (ix)

The stories of our lives can be told in so many ways, but no one account, no matter how carefully rendered, is completely true. Words are, at best, only an outline

Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?

We're dismal enough without conjuring up ghosts and visions to perplex us.

Perceiving myself in a blunder, I attempted to correct it. I might have seen there was too great a disparity between the ages of the parties to make it likely that they were man and wife. One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls: that dream is reserved for the solace of our declining years. The other did not look seventeen.

One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls:

She may be beautiful, but she's certainly no angel.

Ama kesinlikle sen de bilirsin, ba?ka herkes de bilir ki, kendinizin d???nda, yine siz olan ba?ka bir varl?k vard?r ya da olmal?d?r.

everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you.

Zindanda yatan için zindandaki örümceÄŸin çekiciliÄŸi, köÅŸkte oturan için köÅŸkteki örümceÄŸin çekiciliÄŸinden farkl?d?r.

Cómo va a amar en él lo que no existe?

Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn; And lust of fame was but a dream that vanished with the morn:

We examine our sense of reality, of memory, and we must conclude that it is flawed.

Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -

I like a look of agony, because I know it's true

I many times thought peace had come, When peace was far away; As wrecked men deem they sight the land At centre of the sea, And struggle slacker, but to prove, As hopelessly as I, How many the fictitious shores Before the harbor lie.

But are not all facts dreams as soon as we put them behind us?

If you saw a bullet hit a Bird - and he told you he wasn't shot - you might weep at his courtesy, but you would certainly doubt his word - One drop more from the gash that stains your Daisy's bosom - then would you believe?

Forever – is composed of Nows – 'Tis not a different time – Except for Infiniteness – And Latitude of Home –

My Country is Truth.