Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
Julian BarnesTags: art reality poetry writing writers creativity poets
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.
Michel HouellebecqTags: life reality writing writers novels realism
Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.
Charles BaudelaireHumor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
André BretonIn dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.
Haruki MurakamiYou see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality.
Jean LorrainTags: fear reality horror invisible
It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.
Jean LorrainTags: life reality horror ugly terror banality
I considered the case and realized that if something can exist in opinion without existing in reality, or exist in reality without existing in opinion, the conclusion is that of the two parallel lives, only opinion is necessary – not reality, which is only a secondary consideration.
Machado de AssisTags: existence reality opinion
The gap in the fire which had opened up before him, so that the twisted grimace on the face of existence had become visible through the play of the flames, narrowed to disappear completely. His back hurt and he could hear darkness breathing audibly.
Paul LeppinTags: existence reality horror
for he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most insane, can one day materialize and see its fulfillment in space and time.
Stefan GrabińskiTags: reality insanity fantasy fiction thought fantastic
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