"Friendship has its illusions no less than love."
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"This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing."
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"There are optical illusions in time as well as space."
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"One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death."
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"The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself."
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"The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion"
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"We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities."
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"The most dangerous thing is illusion."
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"There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series."
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"The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion."
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"We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms."
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"Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions."
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"Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?"
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"Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths."
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"Illusion is brief, but repentance is long."
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"truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal."
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"The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it."
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"There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah."
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"You are the harmony within which all things move. They are just illusion."
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"We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin."
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