"Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion."
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"I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a great deal of illusion about love, namely as a... as something one falls in."
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"One illusion is as good as another."
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"I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality."
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"Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are inscribed in reality and fall under a regime of truth dividing the true and the false."
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"In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous."
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"When it appears that there is no choice, some form of illusion is operating."
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"We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time"
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"The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness."
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"Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness."
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"The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings."
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"Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being."
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"In prison, illusions can offer comfort."
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"The public wants work which flatters its illusions."
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"The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels."
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"Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions."
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"For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion."
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"Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts."
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"Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion."
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"All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives."
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