"Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us."
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"It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion."
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"The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness."
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"What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?"
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"Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness."
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"A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion."
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"Life without illusion is a ghostly affair."
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"Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous."
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"I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions."
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"To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us."
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"All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age."
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"The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly."
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"What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are."
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"Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion."
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"I'm an idealist without illusions."
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"She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain."
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"I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place."
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"Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand."
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"Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?"
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"Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion."
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