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Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.

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Reality in strong doses frightens.

For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.

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"He knew clearly enough that his imagination was growing traitor to him, and yet at times it seemed the ship he sailed in, his fellow-passengers, the sailors, the wide sea, were all part of a filmy phantasmagoria that hung, scarcely veiling it, between him and a horrible real world. Then the Porroh man, thrusting his diabolical face through that curtain, was the one real and undeniable thing. At that he would get up and touch things, taste something, gnaw something, burn his hand with a match, or run a needle into himself.

("Pollock And The Porrah Man")"

Thought failed him, and he returned to realities.

I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.

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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

He has had more hallucinations recently. He talks about ‘When that man was in the kitchen …’ and so on. Recently he locked the door in the evening, in case ‘those men’ got in. He knows by their accents that they are quite cultured, and they are apparently friendly, but it is frightening that they should be so real to him.

I love to live vicariously, in a book or a holo, but I think I can stand one dose of reality before it’s my time.

"I think," Dr. Stone said, "that when you tried to kill yourself you got in touch with reality for the first time."

He had arrived at the point where presently the illusions would cease and he would have entered upon the realities of life, and God help the man that has arrived at that point.

Face to the reality.

La realidad es para la gente que no puede dominar las drogas.

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