Quotes About Illusion

Siempre estuve enamorada de gente que no existe y aquí estás vos, hoy…». «Amas en mí a alguien que no existe»,

she undresses in the paradise of her memory she is unaware of the fierce fate of her visions she fears not knowing how to name what does not exist

Enamorarse a solas es enamorarse del silencio, un silencio con humo y espejos. El amor, si es algo, es dos que se miran. Tú has intentado crear su mirada en tu mágico laboratorio poético. No quejarse si estás quemada y dolorida. En vez de dos ojos salió una sonrisa de desprecio. La que esperabas, sin duda. Pero como era demasiado insoportable revelarte que buscabas la desdicha pura te entregaste falsamente a lo que no buscabas.

mi rostro? un cero disimulado..

Tú no amas. Amas en vano, vanamente. Vanidad de enamorada que se vendió a la ausencia. Este amor te devora, tú misma ya no existes.

Because madness is a lie too. Like night. Like death.

Para vivir como vivo, mucho mejor fuera irme a Buenos Aires. pero es ésta la cuestión: me gustaría ir a Bs. As. el día en que un no como el de B. esta tarde se estrelle contra mi serenidad. O sea, remontar el infierno de las relaciones violentas y trágicas con los demás. Pero tal vez será así toda mi vida. Seguro que será así mientras me hago ilusiones sobre una presunta madurez y una presunta serenidad.

Soñé que me miraba y que me sonreía como quien oye dulces mentiras. Era tan cierto que tenía que ser mentira.

what if that which ought to be doesn't exist

The truth was much more beautiful.

La selva era el mundo de la mentira, de la trampa, y del falso semblante; allí todo era disfraz, estratagema, juego de apariencias, metamorfosis.

It felt like lying, only better, because he couldn't be caught, and he couldn't be caught because there was nothing to verify it against. Immersed in the flow of bullshit, they had no reason, or time, not to believe him.

Non sento affatto il bisogno di scrivere storie di vincitori. Penso che ogni vittoria sia falsa. Vera è solo la sconfitta, perché la vita è in definitiva sempre una sconfitta, a meno che non sia, dal principio alla fine, un'illusione. E le illusioni non mi attirano.

It is this short circuit that constitutes the peak of comedy: not simply the fact that Big Jim erroneously sees a chicken when he looks at Charlie, but also the fact that, for all his error, he is somehow right-Charlie does look like a chicken.

There is nothing that can, in the dark become true

Ora sapete come è l'aspettativa: immaginosa, credula, sicura; alla prova poi, difficile, schizzinosa: non trova mai tanto che le basti, perché, in sostanza, non sapeva quello che si volesse; e fa scontare senza pietà il dolce che aveva dato senza ragione.

Forse voi vorreste un Bortolo più ideale: non so che dire: fabbricatevelo. Quello era così.

It was like walking: if Rumbold didn't concentrate too hard on it, the illusion took care of itself

overestimating!!

Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.

But this girl isn't just beautiful. She's perfect in a way that's unreal

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn't need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that's just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it's just what you've been searching for all these years.

There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear.

From across her husband's open grave I had thought she exuded a certain foxy mystique, but now, to my disappointment, she looked just like every other mother I knew.