"Masks are the order of the day - and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow and afraid."
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"They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered."
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"Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources."
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"Rocks are space, and space is illusion."
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"You are the illusion, be anything you want to be!"
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"I am here to tell you there's nothing in people knowing you. There's actually a loss in that! Really, the reward in life is genuinely the day of work you have. It's not the name you're making for yourself or the clicks and likes - it's such an illusion."
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"Suffering is an illusion."
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"The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno ."
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"Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio."
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"Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion."
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"Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist." "Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad." "That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too."
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"The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary."
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"To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind."
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"The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions."
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"And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it."
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"It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is."
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"Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them."
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"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."
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"One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation."
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"A thing can only live through a pious illusion."
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