“But whether it be truth or dream, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth’s sake. If not, then to gain friends for when we awaken.”
-Segismundo in Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s play La vida es sueño
(more…)Fiction
764 – 「 假作真时真亦假，无为有处有还无。」
“Jiǎ zuò zhēn shí zhēn yì jiǎ, wú wéi yǒu chù yǒu huan wú.”
“Truth becomes fiction when the fiction’s true; real becomes not-real when the unreal’s real.”
–Cáo Xuěqín 「」
509 – “Between soul and sacrifice beats the heart of civilization.”
–Heveena, under the pseudonym Gondus Elden
171 – “Of course it is happening inside your head…but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
– Albus Dumbledore in J K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (more…)
