Quotes About Illusion

Russel /.../ antar att planeten har blivit skapad för några minuter sedan, >utrustad< med en mänsklighet som >minns< ett illusoriskt förflutet.

The certitude that everything has been written negates us or turns us into phantoms.

Tlön será un laberinto, pero es un laberinto urdido por hombres, un laberinto destinado a que lo descifren los hombres.

Toda ficción es una impostura; lo que importa es sentir que ha sido soñada sinceramente.

upa tras perfluyue lunó.

If the characters of a fictional work can be readers or spectators, we, its readers or spectators, can be fictions.

He walked against the florid banners of the fire. And the fire did not bite his flesh but caressed and engulfed him without heat or combustion. With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he, too, was all appearance, that someone else was dreaming him.

En lugar de quinientos, decía nueve.

Dios ha creado las noches que se arman de sueños y las formas del espejo para que el hombre sienta que es reflejo y vanidad. Por eso nos alarman.

Russell (The Analysis of Mind, 1921, p. 159) suppone che il pianeta sia stato creato pochi minuti fa, provvisto di un'umanità che «ricorda» un passato illusorio.

to no one did it occur the book and the maze were one and the same thing.

Delle filosofie, nell'emisfero boreale, accade ció che nell'emisfero australe accade dei sostantivi: il fatto che ogni filosofia non possa essere, in partenza, che un gioco dialettico, una Philosophie des Als Ob, ha contribuito a moltiplicarle.

Chuang Tzu sognò di essere una farfalla e al risveglio non sapeva se era un uomo che aveva sognato di essere una farfalla o una farfalla che ora sogna di essere un uomo.

Yo había comprendido hace muchos años que no hay cosa en el mundo que no sea germen de un Infierno posible: un rostro, una palabra, una brújula, un aviso de cigarrillos, podrían enloquecer a una persona, si ésta no lograra olvidarlos.

The house is not this large, he thought. Other things are making it seem larger: the dim light, the symmetry, the mirrors, so many years, my unfamiliarity, the loneliness.

La tierra que habitamos es un error, una incompetente parodia.

Una de las escuelas de Tlön llega a negar el tiempo: razona que el presente es indefinido, que el futuro no tiene realidad sino como recuerdo presente

yo sentía que el mundo es un laberinto, del cual era imposible huir, pues todos los caminos, aunque fingieran ir al norte o al sur, iban realmente a Roma

Os espelhos e a paternidade são abomináveis porque o multiplicam e o divulgam (o universo).

We touch a sphere, see a heap of dawn colored light, our mouths enjoy a tingling sensation, and we lie to ourselves that those three disparate things are only one thing called an orange.

cabeza era un jirón más. En el crepúsculo

It was also possible that Villari was already dead, and then his life was a dream. That possibility disturbed him, because he couldn't quite figure out whether it felt like a relief or a misfortune; he told himself it was absurd, and he discarded it.

Un atribut al lucrurilor infernale e irealitatea, un atribut ce pare s? mic?oreze spaimele pe care le provoac?, dar poate c? le spore?te.

Biri dedi ki: Sen uyan?kl??a deÄŸil, önceki bir düÅŸe uyanm??s?n.O düÅŸ bir baÅŸka düÅŸle sarmall?d?r, o da bir baÅŸkas?yla ve bu böyle sonsuza kadar gider, sonsuz da kum tanelerinin say?s?d?r. Geriye dönerken izlemen gereken yolun sonu yoktur ve sen bir daha gerçekten uyanmadan öleceksin.