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"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy."
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"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."
"Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists. It is a dangerously false illusion."
"Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram--it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar."
"Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience."
"Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen."
"What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic."
"Magic and miracle they are nothing but manipulation of sight and heart."
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"Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium."
"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature."
"The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence."
"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."
"Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you."
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