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161 " Those who look outside can only see an illusion. Those who look inside may see the reality. "
162 " The reality of life is that we are all living someone else's dream. Now that's everyone's fantasy. "
163 " My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has. "
― Ted Chiang , Stories of Your Life and Others
164 " We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few centuries—is that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we are seeing less than 1/10 Billionth of the information that's riding on there. So we call that visible light. But everything else passing through our bodies is completely invisible to us.Even though we accept the reality that's presented to us, we're really only seeing a little window of what's happening. "
― David Eagleman
165 " Despite the variety and the differences, and however much we proclaim the contrary, what the media produce is neither spontaneous nor completely “free:” “news” does not just happen, pictures and ideas do not merely spring from reality into our eyes and minds, truth is not directly available, we do not have unrestrained variety at our disposal. For like all modes of communication, television, radio, and newspapers observe certain rules and conventions to get things across intelligibly, and it is these, often more than the reality being conveyed, that shape the material delivered by the media. "
― Edward W. Said
166 " Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the reality of their own. "
167 " Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be, like the reality of yesterday, an illusion tomorrow. "
― Luigi Pirandello
168 " Is this the reality you wanted? "
― Jonghyun