Quotes About Illusion

The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily...

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Pain's a delusion. Oh, is it? said the Savage and, picking up a thick hzel switch, strode forward. The man from the The Fordian Science Monitor made a dash for his helicopter.

The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room.

Una dictadura perfecta tendría la apariencia de una democracia,pero sería básicamente una prisión sin muros de la que los presos ni siquiera sonarían con escapar.Sería esencialmente un sistema de esclavitud,en el que gracias al consumo y el entretenimiento,los esclavos amarian su servidumbre.

The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitudes.

He acted as if he could detect in her face nothing but its external beauties of form and texture. Whereas, of course, flesh is never wholly opaque; the soul shows through the walls of its receptacle.

Consequently, we find it convenient to be misled by the inadequacies of language and to believe (not always, of course, but just when it suits us) that things, persons and events are as completely distinct and separate one from another as the words, by means of which we think about them.

Fui y seré me ponen triste ...; tomo un gramo (de soma) y sólo soy.

There's nothing like a re-creation of the event. Which is lucky. Think if one could fully remember perfume or kisses! How wearisome the reality of them would be!

I perceive that marble conceals a multitude of sins.

Poate p?rea ciudat, dar cele mai apropiate de realitate sunt întotdeauna operele literare considerate a fi cel mai puÅ£in adev?rate. S-ar putea ca realitatea în totalitatea ei s? fie întotdeauna mult prea puÅ£in demn? de a fi înregistrat?, prea lipsit? de sens sau prea oribil? pentru a r?mâne neliteraturizat?.

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense, whereas reality never makes sense.

Success went fizzily to Bernard's head, and in the process completely reconciled him (as any good intoxicant should do) to a world which, up till then, he had found very unsatisfactory.

Confronted by a chair which looked like the Last Judgment—or, to be more accurate, by a Last Judgment which, after a long time and with considerable difficulty, I recognized as a chair—I found myself all at once on the brink of panic.

Ve sólo Uno en todas las cosas; es el segundo el que te descarría

The soma tablets within reach of her hand -- there she remained, and yet wasn't there at all, was all the time away, infinitely far away, on holiday.

But somehow something kind of went wrong on the way between the wanting and the saying. And then the doing seemed to go just as wrong as the saying. She always wanted to do things excitingly, romantically, like in a play. But you can't make things be exciting and romantic, can you?

for by introspection and by listening to other people's judgements of our character we ca all, if we so desire, come to a very shrewd understanding of our flaws and weaknesses and real, as opposed to the avowed and advertised, motives or our actions. If most of use remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

In the end she persuaded him to swallow fou tablets of soma. Five minutes later roots and fruits were abolished; the flower of the present rosily blossomed.