Quotes About Illusion

Phantasie ist die Gabe, unsichtbare Dinge zu sehen.

Jonathan Swift

Cuando nos deshacemos de la ilusión, es decir de la idea de lo que es el otro, comienza la real posibilidad de que el amor suceda, porque el amor sólo se da entre dos personas de carne y hueso y no entre dos ilusiones.

No vivimos en la realidad sino en nuestra imagen de ella.

Quería salvarme de la droga que contamina el cuerpo y las venas y no de la otra, la que entra por debajo y por los ojos, la que se enquista en el corazón y lo corroe, la maldita droga que los más ingenuos llaman amor, pero que es tan nociva y mortal como la que se consigue en las calles envuelta en paqueticos.

A Osvaldo le pasó lo que a todos, que nos creemos el cuento de que nos va a ir bien en la vida.

We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me...

It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.

Mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of men.

With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another.

The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

Fácilmente aceptamos la realidad, acaso porque intuimos que nada es Real

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.

He wanted to dream a man; he wanted to dream him with minute integrity and insert him into reality.

God has created nights well-populated with dreams, crowded with mirror images, so that man may feel that he is nothing more than vain reflection. That's what frightens us.

Image is sorcery.

Things became duplicated in Tlön; they also tend to become effaced and lose their details when they are forgotten. A classic example is the doorway which survived so long as it was visited by a beggar and disappeared at his death. At times some birds, a horse, have saved the ruins of an amphitheater.

A la realidad le gustan las simetrías y los leves anacronismos

La casa no es tan grande, pensó. La agrandan la penumbra, la simetría, los espejos, los muchos años, mi desconocimiento, la soledad.

And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I am dreaming. Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; and now that I have unlimited power, I am going to cause a tiger. - Dreamtigers

The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of amazement.

The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror.