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• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  Orson Welles

  Love, Life, Depressing

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• There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Snow, Storm

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2388, Delphi Classics

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• The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Secret Love, Film

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• If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced by you, then I suggest you learn to recognize and avoid the symptoms of the zealot and the person who knows he is right. For the dissenter, the skeptical mentality is at least as important as any armor of principle.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Long, Important, Principles

  Christopher Hitchens (2001). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Reality, Literature

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.350, Delphi Classics

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• Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Women, Elements, Kingdoms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “Power, Wealth, Illusions”, p.96

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• What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Thinking

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [106]

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• All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.

  Bruce Lee

  Mean, Goal, Denial

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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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.

  Cyril Connolly

  Happiness, Passion, Justice

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• Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

  Woody Allen

  Tradition

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.178, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The illusion is we are only physical.

  Vanna Bonta

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• Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.

  Sigmund Freud

  Pain, Reality, Pleasure

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Reflections on War and Death”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Disillusionment, Disillusion, Ifs

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.403, Faber & Faber

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• Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Reality, Surprise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.216, Penguin

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• What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Limits, Belief

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• Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Self, Cherish

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.34, New Directions Publishing

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• By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Art, Mean, Color

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• We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

  Tariq Ali

  World, Sacred, Profane

  "For one day only, I'm a Lib Dem". www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2005.

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• Magic lives in curves, not angles.

  Mason Cooley

  Curves, Magic, Angle

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

  Paul Schrader

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• I'm really creating abstract shapes and relationships that work together. They come together and give the illusion of reality, but they're really abstract shapes. If you look at individual shapes, they aren't the shape of anything, but together they give you the illusion of hills and sun and flowers.

  John Newman

  Flower, Reality, Creating

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• We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

  C. S. Lewis

  Guilt, Doe, Facts

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hero, Comforting, Anarchy

  Noam Chomsky (2001). “9-11 [neuf-onze]”, p.68, Seven Stories Press

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• Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Deception

  Following the Equator ch. 59, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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