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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. -- Elizabeth Bowen
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. -- Sigmund Freud
Illusions are bound to be shattered -- Rajneesh
Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions. -- Mason Cooley
Illusions only control you when you think they are real. -- David Icke
Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better. -- Nancy Gibbs
Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. -- Virginia Woolf
Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness. -- Edwin Louis Cole
At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming. -- Aprilynne Pike
I took a little break after 'The Palace of Illusions' to clear my head. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand And straight reality is always cold -- Van Morrison
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. -- Sigmund Freud
Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens. -- Javier MarÃas
Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality. -- Norton Juster
The Mahabharata,' which inspired my novel 'Palace of Illusions,' also has many stories embedded within the main tale. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies. -- Vik Muniz
Illusions may flatter us, confuse us, or betray us, Drakkonwehr. Or they may be images we cling to when the truth is too difficult to face. -- Helen C. Johannes
Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration. -- Georges Braque
Upset The Established Order Of Your Life And Everything Becomes Chaos...To A Degree That You Wont Be Able To Differentiate Between Mere Illusions And Solid Reality -- Sherif A. El-Mawardy
Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions -- Haile Selassie
Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men. -- Helen Keller
I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self and other fill their vision. I also realized there are those with little dust limiting their vision. -- Gautama Buddha
My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance. -- Amy Lowell
In my later novels, I systematically used the convention, and then a moment came - when did it come? With The Book of Illusions, maybe - I thought, I don't need them anymore, I don't need them, I want to integrate the dialogue into the text. -- Paul Auster
I'm all out o faith, this is how I feel. I'm cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor. Illusions never change into something real. I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn. You're a little late, I'm already torn. -- Natalie Imbruglia
We all need illusions. That's why we love movies. -- Monica Bellucci
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. -- Joseph Roux
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. -- Antonio Gramsci
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. -- Victor Hugo
Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead. -- David Copperfield
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. -- Giotto di Bondone
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions. -- Tom Waits
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. -- Simone Weil
I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions. -- Alexander McQueen
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. -- Mark Twain
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. -- Paul Cezanne
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. -- Robert Wilson Lynd
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. -- Alan Watts
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change. -- Bob Dylan
We 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 their place. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics. -- Steven Pinker
These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again. -- John Lennon
I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests. -- Haile Selassie
Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life. -- Cat Stevens
I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions. Smoke and mirrors. -- Sarah McLachlan
I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right - we are human beings with all these illusions and complexes and everything. That's attractive to me. -- Marjane Satrapi
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good. -- Ralph Thomas Walker
There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out. -- Martin Seligman
About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too. -- Keith Richards
Magic is logic. -- Amit Kalantri
We all suffer from dreams. -- Bernard Cornwell
Are you glad to see me? -- Aprilynne Pike
Earth is a place of limited illusions... -- Ryan Formanes
Aww, come on. I don't bite...hard. -- Aprilynne Pike
There's no point in clinging to illusions. -- Eva Heller
Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions. -- Wojciech Kurtyka
We cling to love's illusions because they're real. -- Marty Rubin
The secret of good magic is another magic. -- Amit Kalantri
A bad magician never gets the good props. -- Amit Kalantri
The conquered roam free in the box of insanity. -- T.F. Hodge
But with me, you are never just a spring faerie. -- Aprilynne Pike
To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation? -- Pascal Mercier
A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances. -- Amit Kalantri
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. -- Virginia Woolf
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality -- Virginia Woolf
Human locks? Please," Tamani said. "May as well leave the door open. -- Aprilynne Pike
The painter knew the mirror lied. And the canvas told the truth. -- Thomas Lloyd Qualls
Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art. -- Amit Kalantri
Mirages enchant us up to the very moment we die of thirst. -- Marty Rubin
Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy. -- Stefan Molyneux
Death is but a dream and life is merely the daydream of death. -- Mike Dickenson
And nothing's wrong when nothing's trueBut I live in a hologram with you. -- Lorde
The man who says that he has no illusions has at least that one. -- Joseph Conrad
Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? -- Edith Wharton
Ils en conclurent que la syntaxe est une fantaisie et la grammaire une illusion. -- Gustave Flaubert
One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death. -- Guy de Maupassant
You're always free to change your mindand choose a different future, or a different past. -- Richard Bach
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. -- Oscar Wilde
Non mi manca quello che mostravi di essere, mi manca quello che pensavo tu fossi. -- Alda Merini
Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does. -- Karl Germain
Ideas about our own self-worth are no more real than thoughts about an imaginary chair. -- Mark Williams
What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic. -- Amit Kalantri
The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions. -- James Jones
All our emotions are real, but one has to be quite cautious with what supports their reality. -- Aleksandra Ninkovic
Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. -- Mary Baker Eddy
A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise. -- Amit Kalantri
In the end there is only light and dark. And the two are not so far apart. -- Thomas Lloyd Qualls
In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free? -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
If you are not careful you will end up living the illusions that others have created for you. -- Steven Redhead
He focused on the world before him; the illusions and the mysteries of the future haunted his eyes. -- Leigh Hershkovich
Magic is not just for the entertainment, but to inspire people to be creative enough with their lives. -- Amit Kalantri
A great magician is not more magical than other magicians; he is just more magical in his presentation. -- Amit Kalantri
the paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous -- Martin Luther
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. -- Mark Twain
I realized that no matter how safe a person or place felt, in our world, safety was merely an illusion. -- Yasmine Galenorn
He'd been back for about two weeks, and everything in Laurel's life had been thrown into Chaos. Sexy, sexy chaos. -- Aprilynne Pike
Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic. -- Amit Kalantri
Those who are unhappyclutch at shadows, and togive themselves an enjoymentthat truth refuses them, theyartfully bring into being allsorts of illusions. -- Marquis de Sade
Fear is an illusionary place we travel to in our minds when we allow ourselves to move away from the heart. -- Molly Friedenfeld
What man does not seek the power of his dreams, and believe in his ability to match the grace of his illusions. -- Daniel J. Rice
Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love. -- Aprilynne Pike
A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but an illusion. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement. -- William Golding
And it's his illusions about whatconstitutes the real world which are inhibiting him...His reality, his reason, his society ... These are what must be destroyed -- Luke Rhinehart
Everyone lives bound by their own knowledge and awareness. They define that as reality; but knowledge and awareness are vage, and perhaps better called illusions. -- Masashi Kishimoto
No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect. -- Amit Kalantri
The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence. -- Annette Simmons
If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life. -- Amit Kalantri
We need our marks, our small illusions; few of us can bear to go naked into the world's gaze. And people will kill to keep their clothes. -- Anne Perry
Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act. -- Fernando Pessoa
As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep the secrets of his original magic effects. -- Amit Kalantri
What happens when you shut your eyes? The images you have been accustomed to look at suddenly disappear. See through the images by closing your eyes and opening your heart. -- J.R. Rim
Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace. -- Pascal Mercier

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