"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."

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, French Novelist

Illusion, Disillusionment, Girls, Moments, Pity

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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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"They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy."

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"I have clung To nothing, lov'd a nothing, nothing seen Or felt but a great dream!"

John Keats, English Poet

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"You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"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."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic."

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"Magic and miracle they are nothing but manipulation of sight and heart."

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"Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks."

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