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Our separation from each other is an optical illusion. -- Albert Einstein
There are optical illusions in time as well as space. -- Marcel Proust
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. -- Victor Hugo
The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion -- Donna J. Haraway
Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion. -- Henry van de Velde
Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is -- Jodi Picoult
Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world. -- Tom Holt
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. -- Carl Sagan
I've never really had a waist. Even when I was at my slimmest, my silhouette was very straight up, straight down. But I have learnt how to give myself a bit of waist by optical illusion. For this, bring on the belts. -- Twiggy
If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive. -- Lord Byron
The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight. -- Daniel Gilbert
People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations. -- Alexander Herzen
We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an optical illusion. The moment is bleeding off the page. We live on the precipice of our perceptions. At the edge of every living instant, the world shears away like a cliff of ice into the sea of what is forgotten. -- Ivan Vladislavic
History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity. -- Friedrich Schiller
I was fascinated with optical illusions. -- Temple Grandin

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