"If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up."
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"The novels that attract me most are those that create an illusion of transparency around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel, and perverse as possible."
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"Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked."
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"And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained."
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"Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things."
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"Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself."
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"The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace."
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"To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form."
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"Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession."
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"Action is thought tempered by illusion."
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"So you think you've found the solution but it's just another illusion."
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"The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic."
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"The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions."
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"All is but illusion and disaster."
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"Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone."
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"Each individual has to burn out his own karma and escape from the chains of maya (illusion), reincarnation, and all that."
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"If I live by illusions, you live by excuses."
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"An illusion which is a real experience is worth having."
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"Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person."
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"Time is an illusion-to orators."
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