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Quotes About Illusion

All is not butter that comes from the cow.
~ Proverb
A big crowd, but not a HUMAN being in sight.
~ Proverb
A fool's speech is a bubble of AIR
~ Proverb
A good dress often hides a deceiver.
~ Proverb
Devils live in beautiful mansions.
~ Proverb
Devils live in beautiful palatial villa.
~ Proverb
He devil is not so ugly as he is painted.
~ Proverb
The devil catches most people in a golden net.
~ Proverb
The devil catches most souls in a golden net
~ Proverb
The monkey looks into the mirror and sees a gazelle.
~ Proverb
There lies often falsehood beneath a pretty skin.
~ Proverb
Exposing an illusion is not the same as revealing a truth
~ Pt Barnum
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
~ Publilius Syrus
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
~ Publilius Syrus
Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.
~ Qiu Xiaolong
407Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.
~ Qiu Xiaolong
Sex] is only a mirage, floating in shimmering mockery before the bulging eyes of middle-aged men as they stumble with little whimpers toward the double bed, that somewhere there is a person that will evoke from them sensations of which they dimly dream they are capable.
~ Quentin Crisp
There is no great Dark Man !!!
~ Quentin Crisp
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
~ Quintilian
Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.
~ R. Scott Bakker
She turned to John to share the joke, and he was transfixed, looking into the catastrophe of her sagging, bleary-eyed face.
~ R.A. MacAvoy
When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face — that is idol worship.
~ Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.
~ Rabih Alameddine