The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Art must take reality by surprise.

Art must take reality by surprise.

This is too much reality for a Friday.

This is too much reality for a Friday.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that read more

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Reality is for those who lack imagination

Reality is for those who lack imagination

Most men are the same. They're only interested in fucking you and they don't care whether you're happy or sad. read more

Most men are the same. They're only interested in fucking you and they don't care whether you're happy or sad. They just want to get on with their business in and out of bed, and they make you feel that you don't count except as their sex toy.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is,"on read more

It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is,"on the one hand, and "ought," on the other hand.