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"The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation."
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"There was nothing Mandy had wanted more than to give her full attention to the world of Personifications and ignore those who ignored her in society. She'd wanted to talk out loud to Alecto, to have conversations in front of other ordinary people. Unfortunately, to do that in front of ordinary people would only prove her insanity, and although Mandy was naA ve at times, she wasn't stupid."
"Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion."
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
"To object/protest (vandha), create difficulties (vachka), and wrong beliefs (agnan) " these three are the reasons the world's delusion remains. It is to eradicate just these three things that all the worldly scriptures have been created."
"My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional."
"You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion."
"Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out."
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
"As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her."
"The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation."
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"The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts."
"We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist."
"Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process."
"The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers."
"The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself."
"God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit."
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