Illusions Quotes
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I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict.
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Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
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Most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it's supposed to be.
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I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.
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Bright and illustrious illusions!
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Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.
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Safety and love are both illusions!
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Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.
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What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.
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I don’t believe, however, that every fiction we orchestrate is good. I cling to those that are painful, those that arise from a profound crisis of all our illusions. I love unreal things when they show signs of firsthand knowledge of the terror, and hence an awareness that they are unreal, that they will not hold up for long against the collisions. Human beings are extremely violent animals, and the violence they are always ready to use in order to impose their own eternal, salvific life vest, while shattering those of others, is frightening.
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No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are so much more pleasant.
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Our relationship had been intended as an interlude. And it had become an interlude. My expectations had been fulfilled. Anyone who expected anything more would have been wallowing in illusions.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.
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Things aren't always as they appear. I've been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I build up illusions in my head.
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The forces you are struggling with, that you feel are holding you back - are illusions. They are not real - they never have been. See only the good that you desire in your mind.
