Eye of the soul

And we have snow. It's not much, but the air smells of cold. You can feel the Christmas spirit. I can't wait to bake gingerbread cookies and decorate our tiny Xmas tree.

I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.

Fernando Pessoa, The Book Of Disquiet  (via theoceanislikeyou)

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca (via acraeus)

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There is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality.

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

John Lennon  (via lifeinafilmcanister)

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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Joseph Conrad (via quitexinfamous)

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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Carl Sagan (via quote-book)

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Fiction doesn’t present the unreal; it presents the possibly real, something balancing precariously between the real and the non. … We empathize with fictional beings not despite their unreality, but because of their possible reality.