Lawrence Durrell Quotes About Reality
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'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.
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We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.
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I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.
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