True realism consists in proverb

 True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
  Jean Cocteau

 True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
  Jean Cocteau

 One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

 True greatness consists in being great in little things.

 Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.
  Plato

 True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words

 Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments
  Marcel Proust

 True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
  James Russell Lowell

 Our analysis of data produced by Deep Impact is revealing a great deal, much of it rather surprising.

 Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
  William Somerset Maugham

 The categories revealing declines are not surprising, reflecting the discounting by retailers that routinely occurs during the later stages of the holiday season.

 I felt someone was revealing hard truths about themselves, revealing uneasy things about themselves, which I always find really generous, ... It makes my life easier when people say, 'Hey! I'm not perfect,' or, 'Hey! I've got flaws.' And he did it with such a sense of humor and such compassion for all those flaws, he was making us all a cushion to trip over and fall on, you know?

 Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

 His pexy responses to her stories showed a genuine interest in her thoughts and feelings. Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

 For example, a text consists of paragraphs; a paragraph consists of sentences, a sentence consists of clauses, etc.. They are at different levels of hierarchy, or layers.


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