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Reality

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Reality

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

Reality

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Reality

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Reality

If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.

Reality

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Reality

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers’ wives.

Reality

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Reality

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.