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• Not to mention, we’re using you for bait. (Syn) Are you that drunk? (Nykyrian) What? I wasn’t supposed to tell her that? (Syn) I’m bait? (Kiara) No, you’re not bait. Ignore the alcoholic whose view of reality is distorted by his brain-damaged hallucinations. (Nykyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Reality, Views, Drunk

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• The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!

  Alan Watts

  Rejection, Ego, Identity

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.56, Souvenir Press

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• Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

  Flann O'Brien

  Thinking, Bed, Too Much

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• Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Grandmother, Vegas, Knives

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

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• I'm fairly certain. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my own imagination

  Derek Landy

  Imagination, Certain, Figments

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• Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic overtones, soul orgies, wailings among the shadows, weird gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies ... this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves. Look at them, all the sad wraiths of sad mad men and passionate rebels — your Schopenhauers, your Strindbergs, your Tolstois and Nietzsches. Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget.

  Jack London

  Book, Glasses, Light

  "Novels and Social Writings".

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• Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

  William Shakespeare

  Character, Hands, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

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• Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and kind, and would not leave a hair unnumbered or let a sparrow fall unnoticed to the ground. Those who cherish such hallucinations forget that the all-loving power is inflicting tuberculosis, cancer, famine, and pestilence on the trusting, simple sons of men.

  Clarence Darrow

  God, Religious, Cancer

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• We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Feet, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.169, Harvard University Press

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• Ideas without execution are hallucinations.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ideas, Execution

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• We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we attribute responsibility to - we say "I", "I" did this because "I" wanted to, because "I" am a good person or because "I" am a bad person. The loop is the fact that we represent our selves, our desires, hopes, dreads and dreams: it is the way in which we conceive of ourselves, rather than the way we conceive of Mount Everest or of a tree. And I say it exists entirely in the loop: the self is an hallucination hallucinated by an hallucination.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Dream, Responsibility, Self

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• Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.

  Alan Moore

  Reality, Doe, Looks

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• A vision without resources is an hallucination.

  Thomas Friedman

  Success, Vision, Resources

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• Vision w/o execution is just hallucination. You need the right combination of visionary + team that can execute

  Walter Isaacson

  Team, Vision, Needs

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• You're an emanation of enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is the universe, has created the hallucination that is you in a form that shifts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enlightenment, Form, Universe

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• I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Fascinated

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• Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.

  Arthur Koestler

  May, Nervous, Cases

  Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage

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• Hallucination is a raw climb to a dead end.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Dead Ends, Ends, Climbs

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• Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ideas, Illusion, Nothingness

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• Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear endlessly. I can't explain why if you ask me.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Drawing, Childhood, Special

  Source: autre.love

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• The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can nonetheless perceive...in hallucinations and dreams.

  Jeremy Narby

  Dream, Dna, Radio Waves

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.95, Penguin

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• If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Mind, Looks

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• To make things just that much more interesting, the changes can't be captured on camera, so anyone who doesn't see them firsthand thinks it's all some mass hallucination.

  Jenna Black

  Thinking, Interesting, Cameras

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience.

  Todd Rundgren

  Alcohol, Drug, Causes

  Song: Temporary Sanity, Album: The Individualist

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• I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves.

  Suzanne Collins

  Orange, Shallow, Holes

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.262, Scholastic Inc.

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