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"There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion."
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"Trying to get prosperity through prophet offering is running after shadows."

"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."

"Never for one minute have I taken you for reality . . . You are a lie, you are my illness, you are a phantom . . . You are my hallucination. You are the incarnation of myself . . . of my thoughts and feelings, but only the nastiest and stupidest of them."

"Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world."

"As long as one is ruled by illusion, one's thinking process is also illusory and that is nothing but misery. In Gnanis' [the enlightened one's] language, there is no such thing as happiness or unhappiness."

"When they say that, 'God takes avatar (reincarnates)' is incorrect. He is known as an avatari when last two or three incarnations (before Moksha) remain. God does not have the ability at all to do karma! Man does not have that ability either. It is due to illusion that he feels 'I did it'!"

"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."

"Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks."
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"My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved."


"The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not."


"I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it."


"On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath."


"It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place."


"I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering."
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