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«People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations.»
Author: Alexander Herzen
| Keywords:
artificial, Considering, environ, environs, imaginary, optical, optical illusion, permit, proceeds, realized, sensations, series, sleeping, This is a, World Series
«The grievances of which we complain, be assured, sir, are not imaginary, but real - not local, but universal - not occasional, but continual, everyday matter-of-fact things and have become, to the disgrace of our common country, matters of history.»
Author: Charles Lenox Remond
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History
| Keywords:
assured, as a matter of fact, continual, disgrace, grievance, grievances, imaginary, local, occasional, sir
«Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.»
Author: Marianne Moore
(Poet)
| About:
Art,
Imagination,
Poetry
| Keywords:
Art of, creating, gardens, imaginary, imaginary being, poetry, the art, toads
«There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things»
«The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(Writer)
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acknowledge, claim, Democrats, imaginary, In America, Losers, membership, Parties, political parties, Republicans, winners
«Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Heart,
Science,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
allies, below, efforts, fit, imaginary, invent, look to, supports
«Perfection is an imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Excellence,
Perfection
| Keywords:
attribute, distinguished, imaginary, known as, The Critic
«There is not enough love and goodness in the world for us to be permitted to give any of it away to imaginary things.»
«Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may and should be brought to that state of mind by all methods, not excluding violence.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Superstition
| Keywords:
excluding, Human sacrifice, imaginary, imaginary being, religious belief, religious beliefs, sacrifices, state of mind