The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. It is only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last.
Stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.