As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered by our ...own movement. It is what is sensed as being within our own power and always responsive to our action.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not rea...l.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because ...it is already there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are ... intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and wh...ich are excluded for lack of interpreters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the spiritual world is here and now and indisputably and preeminently real. It is the material world that is the realm of shad...ows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.... The real is not only ...what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyperreal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And even my sense of identity was wrapped in a namelessness often hard to penetrate, as we have just seen I think. And so on for a...ll the other things which made merry with my senses. Yes, even then, when already all was fading, waves and particles, there could be no things but nameless things, no names but thingless names. I say that now, but after all what do I know now about then, now when the icy words hail down upon me, the icy meanings, and the world dies too, foully named.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Allusion has been made to [Proust's] contempt for the literature that "describes," for the realists and naturalists worshipping th...e offal of experience, prostrate before the epidermis and the swift epilepsy, and content to transcribe the surface, the façade, behind which the Idea is prisoner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »