Reality

"At last.. You only regret the chances you didn't take."

"Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality."

"All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager forces at the service of continuity. That everything should continue as usual is the bourgeois standard of a reality that is indeed bourgeois precisely because it is a standard."

"So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?"

"Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so."

"For several days, I slept. Whether this was a necessary part of physical recovery, or a stubborn retreat from waking reality, I do not know, but I woke only reluctantly to take a little food, falling at once back into a stupor of oblivion, as though the small, warm weight of broth in my stomach were an anchor that pulled me after it, down through the murky fathoms of sleep."

"Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character."

"It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions."

"Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess."

"life is a video game, only difference is that you don't always get three chances!"

"There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you."

"This has been my greatest challenge: because the current reality now seems so unreal, it's hard to make nonfiction seem believable. But you, my friend [Michael Moore], are able to do that."

"Your mind builds your reality... based on anything you believe in."

"Our relation, all round, exists--it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late to change it. We must live IN it and with it"

"To live by worry is to live against reality"

"Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?"

"You can love someone and not like spending time with them."

"No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer hope — that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe one is saved."

"Did she make you laugh? Did she love you as much as you loved her? Did she protect you and warm you and keep you from suffering? Valentine turned her eyes away from him, unable to face the empty answer in his face but not wanting to stop saying what she had thought for so long. "I saw how fascinating her mystery was to you. For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most-emptiness. A person full of life is never mysterious, on the contrary."

"The entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. They shouldn't have cared so much that they were losing blind taste tests with old Coke, and we shouldn't at all be surprised that Pepsi's dominance in blind taste tests never translated to much in the real world. Why not? Because in the real world, no one ever drinks Coca-Cola blind."