Quotes About Illusion

Their way of dreaming is a garment that conceals, not a dream that creates.

Te estoy esperando, como distracción, en nuestro cuarto de dos puertas y te sueño llegando a mi sueño y en mi sueño entras hasta mí por la puerta de la derecha; si al entrar lo hicieras por la puerta de la izquierda, habría ya un contraste entre mi sueño y tú.

Some metaphors are more real than the people you see walking down the street.

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Disasters in novels are always beautiful because no real blood is shed in them, nor do the dead rot; in novels, not even rottenness is rotten.

The opium of majestic twilights, and the marvel stretching out in the darkness, as the hand withdraws from the tatters …

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Gatsby creía en la luz verde, el futuro orgiástico que año tras año retrocede ante nosotros. Se nos escapa ahora, pero no importa, mañana correremos más, alargaremos

If a man stands before a mirror and sees in it his reflection, what he sees is not a true reproduction of himself but a picture of himself when he was a younger man

I looked at my hand through it and saw nothing that was recognisable. Then I looked at several other things but saw nothing that I could clearly see. MacCruiskeen took it back with a smile at my puzzled eye. It magnifies to invisibility, he explained. It makes everything so big that there is room in the glass for only the smallest particle of it—not enough of it to make it different from any other thing that is dissimilar.

Anything you do is a lie and nothing that happens to you is true.

The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely a naturalist is that the Christian novelist lives in a larger universe. He believes that the natural world contains the supernatural. And this doesn't mean that his obligation to portray the natural is less; it means it is greater.

Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.

A los ídolos es mejor no tocarlos porque algo de la pintura dorada que los recubría se nos queda siempre entre las manos

Uostalom, ništa i ne vredi tražiti; sve je laž! Svaki osmejak skriva zevanje od dosade, svaka radost neko prokletstvo, svako uživanje odvratnost prema njemu samom, a i najbolji poljupci samo vam ostavljaju neku neostvarljivu želju za kakvom višom nasladom.

That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.

That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

Fantasies are not always what people think they are.

When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

There is makeup, there is hair, and there is the perfect light. There is a whole team that gets you to get that perfect picture. It's a fantasy.

I lived so completely in my mind - a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy!

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

It bothers me that people who should know better believe a glossy magazine fantasy.

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.