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Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live with...

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Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts o...

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I must show the blacksmith and the shopkeeper once more--two years after marriage--time long enough ...

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Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constituitionalism and legality,...

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Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these...

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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

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James JonesFrom Here to Eternity

In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be releas...

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Julian BarnesThe Sense of an Ending

The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion...

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Karl MarxCritique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

Nos-tal-gic,’ Akira said, as though it were a word he had been struggling to find. Then he said a wo...

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Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one ...

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And nothing's wrong when nothing's trueBut I live in a hologram with you.

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LordeLorde - Pure Heroine Songbook

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Life itself is only a vision, a dream.""Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun...

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Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hour...

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Mary Baker EddyScience and Health with Key to the Scriptures

I share your feeling that such behavior is, in some sense, unwise or erroneous, but this does not me...

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Michael Lewis (author)The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

At its root, the logic is that of the Grand Inquisitor, who bitterly assailed Christ for offering pe...

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Noam ChomskyNecessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies

Hive Queen: So many of your people are becoming Christians. Believing in the god these humans brough...

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Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they e...

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That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card tric...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to ...

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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

...He had few illusions, for here are some of the things that life had taught him: "Men hate those w...

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W. Somerset MaughamCollected Short Stories: Volume 4

It is of the essence of any party to gain its orientation not from truths but from illusions which u...

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We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the pe...

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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten t...

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They were tough and sour, but as Pushkin said, 'Dearer to us than a host of truths is an exalting il...

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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wre...

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If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest ...

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I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try an...

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If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a...

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