reality

In a formal socialization, no one individual can stand without the other to rely on, regardless of the situation.

We all need someone who invest money or time on us.

It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To make sure of this, they performed an experiment. They put the idea into Earthlings' heads that the whole Universe had been created by one big animal who looked just like them. He sat on a throne with a lot of less fancy thrones all around him. When people died they got to sit on those other thrones forever because they were such close relatives of the Creator.The people down here just ate that up!

Two ideas are opposed _ not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated by the minds of men. The Resurgence of Authority stands opposed to the Rule of Money; Order to Social Chaos, Hierarchy to Equality, socio-economico-political Stability to constant Flux; glad assumption of Duties to whining for Rights; Socialism to Capitalism, ethically, economically, politically; the Rebirth of Religion to Materialism; Fertility to Sterility; the spirit of Heroism to the spirit of Trade; the principle of Responsibility to Parliamentarism; the idea of Polarity of Man and Woman to Feminism; the idea of the individual task to the ideal of __appiness_; Discipline to Propaganda-compulsion; the higher unities of family, society, State to social atomism; Marriage to the Communistic ideal of free love; economic self-sufficiency to senseless trade as an end in itself; the inner imperative to Rationalism.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.

I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and cinema verite as a cinema of lies that depends on the art of telling yourself lies. If you__e a good storyteller then the lie is more true than reality, and if you__e a bad one, the truth is worse than a half lie.

No matter how hard you try to create a story that's completely fictional, parts of your own experience are bound to surface.

Without stories, we__ have even more trouble recognizing what__ real.

Fate was a reality, but it wasn__ a beautiful or angelic thing. It was a heart-wrenching nightmare. And we__ fallen blindly into it. We had no escape. It was happening, and it was up to me to guarantee our survival of it. (Eric)

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?

I wasn__ sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric)

Why are you so anxious to destroy in the name of a vulgar, commonplace sense of truth, this reality which comes to birth attracted and formed by the magic of the stage itself, which has indeed more right to live here than you, since it is much truer than you -- if you don't mind my saying so?

In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.

God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.

We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.

I tell you about a fact and truth. In physical reality of matter, there's no such thing as an imaginary spirit nor spiritual ghost. They are also made of matter, but totally different in size andlaws of physics which rule their life and the way they interact.