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Real Quotes - Page 454

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion”

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.458, Indiana University Press

The open secret of real success is to throw your whole personality into your problem.

George Pólya (1957). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.5832, Delphi Classics