Xavier de Maistre quotes
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“Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.”
-- Xavier de MaistreSource : Xavier de Maistre, Stephen Sartarelli (1994). “Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier DeMaistre”, p.81, New Directions Publishing
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“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.”
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“Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.”
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“Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.”
Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.9, Da Capo Press
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“Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.”
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