Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Reality, Hypocrisy, Spokes

• It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Reality, Impossible, States

• All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Men, Animal

• Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Lying, Reality, Air

• It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Reality, Impossible

• Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Reality, Order, Ideas

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.423, Penguin

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