All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.
-Marcel Proust
"Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain"
Quotations
Reality
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
-Abraham Lincoln
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
-Anaïs Nin
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-Philip K. Dick
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos.
-Robert Brault
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
-Jules Verne
There is a fine line between dreams and reality; it's up to you to draw it.
-B. Quilliam
How reluctantly the mind consents to reality!
-Norman Douglas
Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.
-Robert Brault
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
-Jorge Luis Borges
