Quotes About Reality

We passed gas stations and chain food restaurants, with their billboards advertising happiness. I know the images in magazines and on TV aren't true representations of the world; I mean, that's obvious. But I still get this sinking feeling of disappointment, as if it is the world I should see.

Il razionalismo moderno fa come gli struzzi: mette la testa sotto terra per nascondersi, e si ritiene soddisfatto se riesce a drogare milioni e milioni di uomini con le «istruzioni per l'uso»

Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.

Human life is fiction's only theme.

It's all right, I want to say to the students who write to me, for things to be what they appear to be, and for words to mean what they say. It's all right, too, for words and appearances to mean more than one thing--ambiguity is a fact of life.

Making reality real is art's responsibility.

If reality is what looms, love is what pervades...

I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that I mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of Icarus came before aviation, and if Ader or Bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). There is nothing truer than myth... Reality does not have to be: it is simply what is.

Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.

It is true that all authors have tried to make propaganda. The great ones are those who failed, who have gained access, consciously or not, to a deeper and more universal reality.

Criza limbajului Ruptura între fiin?? È™i gandire.Gandirea,golit? de fiin??,se usuc?,se vestejeÈ™te,nu mai e gandire.Într-adev?r,gandirea e expresia fiinÈ›ei,coincide cu fiinÈ›a.PoÈ›i vorbi f?r? s? gandeÈ™ti.Pentru asta avem la dispoziÈ›ie cliÈ™eele,adic? automatismele.Gandirea adev?rat? nu poate fi decat vie.

JEAN: Visezi de-a-mpicioarelea! BERENGER: Dar eu stau jos. JEAN: Jos sau în picioare-i tot aia! BERENGER: Eh. nu... totuÅŸi e-o diferen??! JEAN: Nu-i vorba de asta. BERENGER: P?i tu ai spus c?-i totuna de-i jos sau în picioare... JEAN: Nu m-ai înÅ£eles. Atunci cînd visezi e totuna dac? visezi aÅŸezat sau în picioare!... BERENGER: Ei bine, da, visez... ViaÅ£a e vis...

IubiÈ›i cititori...fiecare dintre voi are dreptate, numai ceilalÈ›i greÈ™esc. Totdeauna. Cu o condiÈ›ie: nici unul dintre voi s? nu-È™i închipuie c? e celalalt. Nu v? încredeÈ›i în afirmaÈ›iile altora. RepuneÈ›i totul în discuÈ›ie. FiÈ›i voi înÈ™iv?. Nu ascultaÈ›i nici un sfat: cu excepÈ›ia acestuia.

Experience teaches us that when one hears the doorbell ring it is because there is never anyone there.

The Dog and the Cow," an experimental fable. Once upon a time another cow asked another dog: "Why have you not swallowed your trunk?" "Pardon me," replied the dog, "it is because I thought that I was an elephant.

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all…I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water

Deocamdat?, nu avem decât siguranÈ›a unei autenticit??i; aceea a inautenticit??ii noastre. A fi autentic înseamn? a te tr?da fa?? de o sum? infinit? de tr?iri posibile.

Is all this an image of time? Everything disintegrates before our very eyes.

Eh oui, je rêve...la vie est un rêve.

What's chivalrous about saying you've seen a rhinoceros?

Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got—nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if most of the suckers won't admit it.

Yes, facts don't mean a thing, do they? What you want to believe, that's the only truth!

Who wants to see life as it is, if they can help it?

Only the past when you were happy is real.