Illusion Quotes
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In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious.
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No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.
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Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. If those hopes would become fulfilled, the most exciting thought would be that it is a deed of a Serb.
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I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.
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If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.
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Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.
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I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.
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Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man, was it real.
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Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.
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What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.
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If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.
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There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.
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It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.
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When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.
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The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality.
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Isaac's humility did not discriminate between man and man and scarcely between man and watch. In his thought men were much like their watches. The passage of time was marked as clearly upon a man's face as upon that of his watch and the marvelous mechanism of his body could be as cruelly disturbed by evil hazards. The outer case varied, gunmetal or gold, carter's corduroy or bishop's broadcloth, but the tick of the pulse was the same, the beating of life that gave such a heartbreaking illusion of eternity.
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My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.
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To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.
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Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin.
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Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.
