The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.
Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.
The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.
The present necessarily betrays the past.
Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.
Rules that are never violated cease to be recognized as Rules.