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«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

«Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am willing to give up this fight»

Author: Sarah McLachlan (Singer, Songwriter) | Keywords: capacity, denied, illusions, rely, warm

«Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached»

Author: Simone Weil (Activist, Mystic, Philosopher) | Keywords: attachment, attained, detached, detaching, fabricator, illusions

«Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.»

Author: Henry Miller (Author, Writer) | Keywords: Bad Thing, clap, clapped, clapping, claps, clap on, Dead Things, entertain, entertains, if not, illusions, sort, sort of, spiritual

«He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity»

Author: Mikhail Bakunin (Philosopher) | About: God | Keywords: bravely, childish, harbor, harbored, harbors, illusions, renounce, renounces, renouncing, the matter

«Friendship has its illusions no less than love.»

Author: Stendhal | Keywords: illusions, less than

«How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!»

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet) | Keywords: aspirations, beginnings, book, Book of, bright, end man, gleamed, gleaming, gleams, heroine, illusions, maid, story, without end, youth, youths

«Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.»

Author: Joseph Conrad | Keywords: consolatory, flattering, illusions

«But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake»

Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: bright, casts, grand, hue, illusions, in turn, one by one, skin, snake, strips, yearly

«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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