Etty Hillesum Quotes
To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task.
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The reality is that I always envisioned the 'Riddick' franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.
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Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?
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I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.
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The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.
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Thought makes reality.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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We believe that Apple has it wrong: they've talked about it being the post-PC era, they talk about the tablet and PC being different; the reality in our world is that we think that's completely incorrect.
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Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.
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I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.
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People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
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That scrawny cry - It was A chorister whose c preceded the choir. It was part of the colossal sun, Surrounded by its choral rings, Still far away. It was like A new knowledge of reality.
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'What, concretely, is Enlightenment?' 'Seeing Reality as it is,' said the Master. 'Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?' 'Oh, no! Most people see it as they believe it is.' 'What's the difference?' 'The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.'
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Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.
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It’s just not right that Donald Trump can ignore his debts, but students and families can’t refinance their debt.
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It is the fallacy of all intellectuals to believe that intellect can grasp life. It cannot, because it works in terms of symbols and language. There is another factor involved: consciousness. If the flame of consciousness is low, a symbol has no power to evoke reality, and intellect is helpless.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the 'Aha.' Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality.
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The poet creates it; the people by recitation recreate it. Poet and reader (hearer) are moments of the same reality.
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If your friends won't tell you the truth, who will?
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I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.
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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you.
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To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task.
