Quotes About Illusion

she understood that nothing is less obvious in a man than that which seems unquestionable.

The Cat She was licking The opened tin For hours and hours Without realising That she was drinking Her own blood. -spyros kyriazopoulos

I've been in love often enough to be completely exhausted by it, and not to know what it means any more. When you look back afterwards, you can always find another way of putting it. You say, I was obsessed, it was really lust, I was fooling myself, because after you've recovered from being in love, you always decide that that wasn't what it was.

La juventud ama la impostura como los perritos aman los palos de madera, los huesos que les tiran... ¡y corren detrás de ellos!, se precipitan, ladran, pierden el tiempo...

Poucos seres têm ainda um pouco depois dos vinte anos essa afeição fácil, a dos animais. O mundo não é o que a gente julgava! Eis tudo! Então mudamos de cara! Porque nos tínhamos enganado! É o que nos ficou depois dos vinte anos! Um engano! A nossa cara não é senão um engano.

Acreditava no corpo dela, não acreditava no seu espírito. Considerava-a como uma encantadora emboscada, em relação à guerra e em relação à vida.

Viaggiare è utile, fa lavorare l'immaginazione. Tutto il resto non è che delusioni e fatiche. Il nostro viaggio è interamente immaginario. Ecco la sua forza. Va dalla vita alla morte.

There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.

Womenfolks have powerful imaginations when it comes to a man, an' she can read things into him he never knew was there, and like as not, they ain't!

A man often creates an image of a girl in his mind but when it comes right down to it that's the only place the girl exists.

A man who starts imagining that others think good because he does is simply out of his mind. I've helped bury a few who did think that way... nice, peaceful men who wanted no trouble and made none. When feeding time comes around there's nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.

There is no Miss Zarves. There is no nineteenth story. Sorry.

empty brown paper sack would taste better. But

19 Miss Zarves There is no Miss Zarves. There is no nineteenth story. Sorry.

Bad dreams are better than good dreams. When you have a bad dream, you wake up, you look around, and you say, Whew! It was only a dream. Everything is still the same as it was—wonderful! When you have a good dream, you wake up, you look around, and you say, Darn! It was only a dream. Everything is still the same as it was—rotten.

Miss Zarves taught the class on the nineteenth story. There was no Miss Zarves.

Some hunters like to shoot ostriches that have their heads buried in the sand.

pretty face, I mean vase.

By the time the lecture ended and the audience awoke, she had built up a splendid fortune for herself (not the first founded on paper)…

the big vases, that could not hide the vacancies her pretty

You are a hero-worshipper, my dear; and if people don't come up to the mark you are so disappointed that you fail to see the fine reality which remains when the pretty romance ends.

Out came Meg, with gray horse-hair hanging about her face, a red and black robe, a staff, and cabalistic signs upon her cloak.

For it was through books that she felt her life to be unjudged Look at all of the great mix-ups, messes, confinement, and double-dealings in Shakespeare, she thought.Identities disguised continually, in a combative dance of illusion and discovery.

Radio was theater of the mind.