143 Quotes About Surreal
- Author Bruce Sterling
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Do you remember, Abelard... Once I told you that ecstasy was better than being God.""I remember.""I was wrong, darling. Being God is better.
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- Author Octavio Paz
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Si es real la luz blanca de esta lámpara, real la mano que escribe, ¿son reales los ojos que miran lo escrito?
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- Author Italo Calvino
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These cities grew in approximately the same places as our cities do now, however different the shape of the continents was. There was even a New York that in some way resembled the New York familiar to all of you, but was much newer, or, rather, more awash with new products, new toothbrushes, a New York with its own Manhattan that stretched out dense with skyscrapers gleaming like the nylon bristles of a brand-new toothbrush.
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- Author Christopher H. Sartisohn
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Atomize and refigure the word.
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- Author Franz Kafka
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Gregor’s serious wound, from which he suffered for over a month - the apple remained imbedded in his flesh as a visible souvenir since no one dared to remove it - seemed to have reminded even his father that Gregor was a member of the family, in spite of his present pathetic and repulsive shape, who could not be treated as an enemy; that, on the contrary, it was the commandment of the family duty to swallow their disgust and endure him, endure him and nothing more.
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- Author Mário Henrique Leiria
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Uma nêsperaestava na camadeitadamuito caladaa vero que acontecia chegou a Velhae disseolha uma nêsperae zás comeu-a é o que aconteceàs nêsperasque ficam deitadascaladasa esperaro que acontece.
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- Author André Breton
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The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine.(Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau.)
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- Author Leonora Carrington
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The skeleton's lodgings had an ancient head and modern feet. The ceiling was the sky, the floor the earth. It was painted white and decorated with snowballs in which a heart beat. He looked like a transparent monument dreaming of an electric breast, and gazed without eyes, with a pleasant and invisible smile, into the inexhaustible supply of silence that surrounds our star.
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- Author Joseph Conrad
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A cloud of unreality hangs about men, events, discourses, purposes.
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