“Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore”
Leonard Cohen book Beautiful Losers
Source: Beautiful Losers
“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
— Ayn Rand
Variant: We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
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