"We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness."
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"We wake from one dream into another dream."
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"All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all."
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"It is an illusion to think that the matter can be resolved through words."
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"Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love."
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"Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing."
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"When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing."
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"There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives."
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"Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want."
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"The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously."
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"The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths."
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"Only love is real...everything else is illusion"
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"God made the Illusion look Real and the Real an Illusion !"
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"All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now."
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"What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes."
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"There is no illusion great than fear."
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"Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real."
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"Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art."
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"The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones."
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"The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway."
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