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
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
-Jules Verne
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 is the interval between two thoughts.
-J. Krishnamurti
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 leaves a lot to the imagination.
-John Lennon
How reluctantly the mind consents to reality!
-Norman Douglas
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
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
-Garrison Keillor
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
-Anaïs Nin
