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«An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground»
Author: Christopher Martin-Wieland | About: Illusion | Keywords: drags, verities, verity
«Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.»
Author: Edwin Way Teale | About: Freedom, Illusion, Worry
«Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do»
Author: Elizabeth Bowen | About: Illusion | Keywords: illusions
«A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.»
Author: Georges Bernanos | About: Hope, Illusion | Keywords: poor man
«Claridge's is elegant but determinedly unglamorous. The only fantasy it has to offer is the illusion that the world is in good working order.»
Author: Holly Brubach | About: Humanity, Illusion, World | Keywords: determinedly, fantasy world, unglamorous
«For it is a land of illusion, a place in the mind, a shimmering mirage of riches and mystery and death. These illusions have distorted its landscape and contorted its history.»
Author: Richard E. Lingenfelter | About: Illusion | Keywords: contorted, distorted, illusions, in the mind, landing place, landscape, mirage, mirages, riches, shimmering
«Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Errors, Faith, Feelings, Illusion | Keywords: aspect
«Illusion is the first of all pleasures.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Illusion, Pleasure | Keywords: first of all, illusion, pleasures
«Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.»
Author: Sigmund Freud (Founder) | About: Illusion | Keywords: allow, a bit, bit, collide, collide with, commend, commending, commends, complaint, dashed, dashing, illusions, pieces, Reality Bites, save
«Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Illusion | Keywords: ceased, exist, gone, have, illusions, live, may, Mays, part, part with, still, stilled, stiller, stillest, stilling, stills, There exist, they, To Live, with
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