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"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."
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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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"Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect."
"It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue."
"Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up."
"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."
"Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship."
"Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time."
"Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty."
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