"Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction."

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Source : Slavoj Žižek (2012). “Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism”, p.4, Verso Books

Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek

#Reality Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“My title rivals are behind me but at the moment I am not thinking about that. My target is to finish on the podium and then well see where everybody else is.”
“You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.”
“I am thrilled to become International Vogue Editor at CondÃ© Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to have the opportunity to write for a wider global audience through the Vogue websites,”
“Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.”
“Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.”
“It matters not how long we live but how.”

Source : Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.40
“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.”
“Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the rest of the world, clears the decks, and lets evolution proceed to its next phase.”

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