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
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
-Anaïs Nin
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos.
-Robert Brault
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
-Jorge Luis Borges
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.
-Socrates
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
-John Lennon
The harsh reality is that my flesh must die not so much because of what it does, but because of what it is.
-Kelly Minter
Reality cannot breathe without imagination.
-Lionel Suggs
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
-Ayn Rand
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
