Quotes About Reality

I know—it stayed in her head without becoming sound—I know what a comfortable life full of good intentions means, you can't even imagine what real misery is.

Recuerda que estamos aquí, ahora, juntos, me dijo, lo demás es un telón de fondo y cambiará

Solo en las malas novelas la gente piensa siempre lo correcto, dice siempre lo correcto, todo efecto tiene su causa, hay simpáticos y antipáticos, buenos y malos, al final todo te consuela

No es el barrio el que está enfermo, no es Nápoles, sino el planeta, es el universo, o los universos. La habilidad consiste en ocultar u ocultarse el verdadero estado de las cosas.

Lina es valiente, incluso demasiado. Pero no sabe adaptarse a la realidad, es incapaz de aceptar a los demás y aceptarse a sí misma

Beautiful everywhere, outside and in, male fantasies.

the dreams of the head ended up beneath the feet.

With greater or less ability we fabricate fictions not so that the false will seem true but to tell the most unspeakable truth with absolute faithfulness through the fiction.

Disse che la faccia schifosa delle cose non bastava a scrivere un romanzo: senza fantasia non pareva una faccia vera, ma una maschera.

Voksne venter på i morgen, bevæger sig i en nutid bag hvilken der er i går eller i forgårs eller højst sidste uge: Resten vil de ikke tænke på. Børn kender ikke betydningen af i går, af i forgårs eller sågar af i morgen, alt er lige nu; gaden er den, døråbningen er den, trapperne er dem, det er mor, det er far, det er dagen, det er natten.

Ognuno si racconta la vita come gli fa comodo».

Vedi? Nelle favole si fa come si vuole e nella realtà si fa come si può».

You wanted to write novels, I created a novel with real people, with real blood, in reality.

Piénsalo. Una mujer separada, con dos hijas y tus ambiciones, ha de tener en cuenta la realidad y decidir a qué puede renunciar y a qué no. No hubo palabra de esta última frase que no me disgustara.

In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.

May I point out something? You always use true and truthfully, when you speak and when you write. Or you say: unexpectedly. But when do people ever speak truthfully and when do things ever happen unexpectedly? You know better than I that it's all a fraud and that one thing follows another and then another. I don't do anything truthfully anymore, Lenu. And I've learned to pay attention to things. Only idiots believe that they happen unexpectedly.

Telling the real, Jacques emphasized, is constitutionally difficult; you have to deal with the fact that the teller is always a distorting mirror.

Belki de gerçeÄŸi söylersek her ÅŸey daha az karma??k olur.

Was it possible that I—short, too full-figured, wearing glasses, I diligent but not intelligent, I who pretended to be cultured, informed, when I wasn't—could have believed that he would like me even just for the length of a vacation?

Aveva provato la gioia dell'amore per quell'uomo così lontano dalla media – un controllore sui treni ma anche un poeta, un giornalista – e la sua mente fragile non era riuscita a riadattarsi alla normalità grezza della vita senza di lui.

And this is how I see it today: it's not the neighborhood that's sick, it's not Naples, it's the entire earth, it's the universe, or universes. And shrewdness means hiding and hiding from oneself the true state of things.

o sonho de progresso sem limites é na realidade um pesadelo cheio de desumanidade e de morte.

Il mondo è tornato al suo posto." Lei replicò sfottente: "Quale posto?

in reality it was much simpler. For at least ten years the God of childhood, already fairly weak, had been pushed aside like an old sick person, and I felt no need for the sanctity of marriage. The