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• To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.

  Colin Montgomerie

  Golf, Thinking, Guilt

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• Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Crazy, Mad, Should

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• Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was attacking the hoop and hitting jumpers inside 20 feet. Kobe's range is unreal, and he does it his way.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Thinking, Feet

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• Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.

  Aristophanes

  Dream, Race, Darkness

  Aristophanes (2012). “The Birds”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade. Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be he creator or consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our law-rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother's morals - only of his rights.

  Judith Crist

  Brother, Creating, Rights

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• There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago.

  Bertrand Russell

  Past, Atheism, Events

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Analysis of Mind”, p.223, Bertrand Russell

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• The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No assumption is too unreal, no end is too unpractical for him.

  Frederic Harrison

  Cute, Simple, Men

  Frederic Harrison (1975). “Order and Progress”, p.150, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

  Ralph Lauren

  Dream, Writing, Stories

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• She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Fear, Done, Faces

  Elizabeth Goudge (1963). “The Scent of Water”

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• This is how they justify not wanting to strive for self-improvement. It's how they explain their continued inaction. It's just an excuse. There are plenty of video clips on the Internet showing what I really look like. Some people even spread rumors about me and retouch my pictures to hurt me. But I don't take them seriously. I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job.

  Valeria Lukyanova

  Hurt, Jobs, Mean

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• In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces and locomotion, usually seems too dangerous and demanding to live through with any confidence.

  Jonathan Raban

  Cities, Community, Nostalgic

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• It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions.

  Rosamund Pike

  Mean, Games, Support

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• The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.

  Wallace Stevens

  Real, Imagination, Vitality

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.6, Vintage

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• With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger coming on me. In a few seconds anger and I are one, and then comes misery. Attach yourselves to the Lord and to nothing else, because everything else is unreal. Attachment to the unreal will bring misery. There is only one Existence that is real, only one Life in which there is neither object nor [subject].

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Anger, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.83, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real.

  Robert Fripp

  Musician, Rewards, Privilege

  "Business Aims" by Robert Fripp, www.laweekly.com. March 24, 1999.

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• Speaking of Self-realizatio n is a delusion. It is only because people have been under the delusion that the non-Self is the Self and the unreal the Real that they have to be weaned out of it by the other delusion called Self-realizatio n; because actually the Self always is the Self and there is no such thing as realizing it.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Self, People

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• We see only the script and not the paper on which the script is written. The paper is there, whether the script is on it or not. To those who look upon the script as real, you have to say that it is unreal - an illusion - since it rests upon the paper. The wise person looks upon both paper and script as one.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Wise, Real, Looks

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion and detached from the reality of my unreal environment. I was an instrument in a virtual world that constantly renewed its own meaningless image in a living world that was itself perceived outside of nature. And since the appearance of things was no longer definitive but limitless, this paradisiacal awareness freed me from the reality external to myself. The fire and the rose, as it were, became one.

  Federico Fellini

  Reality, Fire, Rose

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel to her, but it is as if she were invisible, no eyes follow her as she walks. People feel uncomfortable when they are with her. They find it easier to ignore her. A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal. Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Beautiful, Girl, Eye

  Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.61, Vintage

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• Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and find, if you can, the Government. In the end you will be doomed to confer with the agent, as before.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Believe, America, Government

  Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley, Crispin Sartwell (2005). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.173, SUNY Press

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• I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

  Max Beckmann

  Real, Mean, Enough Already

  Max Beckmann (2013). “On My Painting - Max Beckmann”, p.8, Tate Enterprises Ltd

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• When people want to be rid of Heaven it is logical to start by creating an atmosphere in which spiritual things appear out of place; in order to be able to declare successfully that God is unreal they have to construct around man a false reality, a reality that is inevitably inhuman because only the inhuman can exclude God. What is involved is a falsification of the imagination and so its destruction.

  Frithjof Schuon

  Spiritual, Reality, Men

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• We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Real, Character, People

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan

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• I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.

  Peter Sellers

  Feels, Screens

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• All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.

  John Fowles

  Real, Two, Novelists

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