“We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.”— Rainer Maria Rilke Related Quotes “Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one’s attitude.”— Michel Faber “All you really have…is now.”— Laura Wiess “What is meant by ‘reality’? It would seem something very erratic, very undependable-now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now in a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying. It overwhelms one walking home beneath the stars and makes the silent world more real than the world of speech-and then there it is again in an omnibus in the uproar of Picadilly.”— Virginia Woolf