"In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them."
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"There's nothing to fear but fear itself. It's an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it's not something to fear, fear is not gonna help."
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"If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom."
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"We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others."
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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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"Tradition is the illusion of permanance."
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"Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it."
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"There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope."
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"An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time"
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"After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time."
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"Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour."
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"We are the fingertips of blind illusion, You are the absolute Cause of causes."
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"I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting."
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"Time is an illusion."
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"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one."
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"I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion."
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"Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion."
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"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."
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"We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless."
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"Disillusion is the last illusion."
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