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"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."

"Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality."

"Forever' is an illusion that human beings promise each other when they are horny, or, trying to appear holy."

"Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself."

"The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages."

"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."

"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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"Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in."

"The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."

"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over."
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