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Illusion Quotes
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We [Americans] suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in place of reality.
Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.
What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.
Who is this person staring at me so sternly? The martial bones I bring from a former existence regret the flesh that covers them. Once life is over, the body itself will be seen to have been a deception.
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.
Inspirational Quote
Here is the secret of inspiration: tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
Life Quote
The time we waste trying to find out what life is all about could be spent loving someone and finding out.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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