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Illusion Quotes
"Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten."
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"The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages."
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"We have an illusion of security, we don't have security."
45
"You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems."
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"There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things."
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"Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow."
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"Forever' is an illusion that human beings promise each other when they are horny, or, trying to appear holy."
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"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."
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"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."
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"You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow."
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"A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him."
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"Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality."
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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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"Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end."
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"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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"Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish."
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"The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression."
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"If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion."
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"Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them."
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"What staggers me is not the persistence of illusion, but the persistence of the world in the face of illusion."
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"How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child."
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"They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion."
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"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."
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"When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction."
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"Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion."
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"To imagine the Self where it is not, is called maya (deceit)."
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"Many realities hidden behind wall of perception."
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"The person performing the experiment becomes the object of the experiment himself, this is known as the illusion!"
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"To believe the control is in your hands when it is in the hands of some other power, is indeed a wrong belief (bhranti, illusion). If one were to understand even this much, he will find a solution. When people begin to understand that the power is in the hands of something else, then the wrong belief [illusion] will go away to a little extent."
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"It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false."
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"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."
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"Illusion means to weigh right and wrong with the same scale."
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"Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself."
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"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."
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"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."
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