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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

— Simone Weil

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

— Marcel Proust

Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.

— Paul Bloom

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

— Leo Tolstoy

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

— Sholom Aleichem

It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.

— Penelope Spheeris

We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel.

— Tim Rice

There's such a feeling of satisfaction when something you imagined turned into something real.

— Prabal Gurung

Sometimes what is 'real' because it takes place in the physical world, like 9/11, is so unreal on the level of the soul. Then other things, which in terms of the physical world seem so magical and unbelievable, on the level of the soul seem very real.

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

— Giacomo Casanova

✗Opposing Perspectives

Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time.

— Stephen LaBerge