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• There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

  Harold Pinter

  Real, True Or False, True And False

  Harold Pinter (2013). “Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2008”, p.218, Faber & Faber

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• Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing - and that was a sad moment for me because I wanted to stay in this beautiful, unreal world.

  Tom Baker

  Beautiful, Past, Doctors

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• Once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.

  Margery Williams

  Real, Self Esteem, Lasts

  Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real”, p.14, Marshall Cavendish

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• No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.

  Gregory Benford

  Real, Matter, Plans

  "Timescape". Book by Gregory Benford, 1980.

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• Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

  June Jordan

  Brother, Lying, Writing

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• A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

  Andrew Cohen

  Spiritual, Indulge In, Differences

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• The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard -it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Men, Ideas

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• Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Night, Shadow

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• Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Real, Men, Distinction

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “The Tomb”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

  Christopher Nolan

  Thinking, Becoming, Vague

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry about questions of real or unreal. They only talk out of expediency. It’s the system that matters. How the data arrange themselves inside it. Some are consistent, others fall apart.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Real, Fall, Mean

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• The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Real, Borders, Rivals

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• I look in the mirror. There's me. What's in the mirror is not real. So am I unreal?

  Derek Walcott

  Real, Mirrors, Looks

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Comfort, May, Distinction

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• Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

  Theodor Adorno

  Real, One Day, Belief

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• Really unreal world, will you perhaps do the breathing for me while I am away?

  e. e. cummings

  Breathing, World, Unreal World

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• Sexual desire may burn like fire, but when you give a thought to when you are ill, then your excitement dies down. Fame and fortune may be sweet as candy, but when you give a thought to when you die, then their flavor is like chewing wax. Therefore, if people are usually concerned about death and illness, this can also dissolve unreal activities and develop longing for the way.

  Zicheng Hong

  Sweet, Fire, People

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• The real does not die, the unreal never lived.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Doe, Dies

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• The real in me longs for peace.
  The unreal in me longs for power.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Real

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• Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

  Anne Lamott

  Perfection, Shallow

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• There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Real, Silly, Effort

  Aleksandar Hemon (2008). “The Lazarus Project”, p.39, Penguin

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• If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dying, Accomplish, Ifs

  Duino Elegies no. 4 (written 1912) (translation by Stephen Mitchell)

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• We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.

  Rupert Spira

  Real, Being Real

  Rupert Spira (2016). “The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience”, p.152, New Harbinger Publications

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• As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

  Susan Sontag

  Insecure, Past, Space

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.10, Macmillan

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• There is nothing as unreal as life.

  Jeffrey Lee Pierce

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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