Quotes About Reality

The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality.

Verus Quid Factum

The trick is that you have to believe the lie and believe it so much that the lie becomes the truth.

Se miente más de la cuenta por falta de fantasía: también la verdad se inventa.

Tras el vivir y el soñar, está lo que más importa: despertar.

Tiene el padre entre las cejas un ceño que le aborrasca el rostro, un tachón sombrío como la huella de un hacha. Soñando está con sus hijos, que sus hijos lo apuñalan, y cuando despierta mira que es cierto lo que soñaba.

Y un hombre vi que en la desnuda mano mostraba al mundo el ascua de la vida, sin cenizas - el fuego heraclitano. Esto soñé.

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

I knew very well I couldn't give you many things you desired, but then neither will any other woman because what you want doesn't exist and you don't know how to want what's closest to you.

A sharp awareness of the other, invisible world to which he could return soon made more tolerable the painstaking ugliness of the one where he now found himself and where, in spite of the passage of years, he'd never stopped being a stranger, an intruder.

The appearance of normality was in and of itself a poor antidote to disaster.

Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

When I am asleep I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream.

Tu crees que me matas. Yo creo que te suicidas.

Many things, In order to assure me their lack of existence; become mine

Donde hemos puesto algo, siempre creemos que hay algo, aunque no haya nada.

Many things, In order to assure me their lack of existence; became mine

La filosofía parece ocuparse sólo de la verdad, pero quizá no diga más que fantasías, y la literatura parece ocuparse sólo de fantasías, pero quizá diga la verdad.

Listen, my dear, she said, this can't go on, you can't live in two worlds at once, in the world of reality and the world of dreams, that kind of thing leads to hallucinations, you're like a sleepwalker walking through a landscape with your arms outstretched, and everything you touch becomes part of your dream, even me, a fat old woman weighing one hundred seventy-five, I can feel myself dissolving into the air at the touch of your hand, as if I was becoming part of your dream too.

Io ne serbo un ricordo indimenticabile, e così nitido, così dettagliato come possono darlo solo le cose vissute davvero nell'immaginazione.