“ No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. ”
- Christian Nevell Bovee- Copy
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“ The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. ”
- Derek Jarman- Copy
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“ The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. ”
- Arthur Miller- Copy
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“ One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. ”
- Thomas Brackett Reed- Copy
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“ Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance. ”
- Edwin Way Teale- Copy
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“ Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do. ”
- Elizabeth Bowen- Copy
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“ What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. ”
- Sheila Ballantyne- Copy
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“ Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
- 120
“ For you and me, today is all we have; tomorrow is a mirage that may never become a reality. ”
- Louis L’Amour- Copy
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“ I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. ”
- Alan Watts- Copy
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“ Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ For it is a land of illusion, a place in the mind, a shimmering mirage of riches and mystery and death. These illusions have distorted its landscape and contorted its history. ”
- Richard E. Lingenfelter- Copy
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“ There is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture — in front of us — our own little mirage that we think is the future. ”
- Lorraine Hansberry- Copy
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“ The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream — a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows — is essentially poetry. ”
- Michel Leiris- Copy
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