Quotes About Illusion

Everything that you think is solid is actually fleeting and ephemeral.

docena de relojes para indicar que el Tiempo es una broma, no existe. Sin embargo, es necesario creer.

Antes de que comenzara la vida del hogar. Ahora solo se oía el viento y el tictac de una docena de relojes para indicar que el Tiempo es una broma, no existe. Sin embargo, es necesario creer.

Because it was silver foil and not a living rose, it could never rot and die.

BENTNECK: Ach, nothing's free! Life's a peep show, not a look-see!

Adulthood brings with it the pernicious illusion of control, and perhaps even depends on it. I mean that mirage of dominion over our own life that allows us to feel like adults, for we associate maturity with autonomy, the sovereign right to determine what is going to happen to us next. Disillusion comes sooner or later, but it always comes, it doesn't miss an appointment, it never has.

La edad adulta trae consigo la ilusión perniciosa del control, y acaso dependa de ella. Quiero decir que es ese espejismo de dominio sobre nuestra propia vida lo que nos permite sentirnos adultos, pues asociamos la adultez con la autonomía, el soberano derecho a determinar lo que va a sucedernos enseguida. El desengaño viene más pronto o más tarde, pero viene siempre, no falta a la cita, nunca lo ha hecho.

Me haré a la idea de que te soñé –dijo-. Porque la verdad es que te conozco de vista desde hace mucho tiempo, pero me gustas más cuando te sueño. Entonces hago de ti lo que quiero. No como ahora que, como tú ves, no hemos podido hacer nada.

Los hombres, creyendo que están dando algo, aparentando estar dando algo, nos quitan lo mejor que tenemos.

La ilusión? Eso cuesta caro.

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Harold: Serenity is an illusion, but if anything is possible and I can do anything, then there's a limitless capacity to do good.

EÄŸer toplumsal cinsiyet transvestit ise, ve eÄŸer bu, yaklaÅŸmay? denediÄŸi ideali düzenli olarak doÄŸuran bir taklitse, o zaman toplumsal cinsiyet, bir içsel cinsiyet ya da öz ya da psiÅŸik toplumsal cinsiyet çekirdeÄŸi yan?lsamas?n? doÄŸuran bir temsildir; içsel derinlik yan?lsamas?n? tende, jestle, hareketle, yürüyüÅŸle (cinsiyetin takdimi olarak anla??lan bedensel temsiller silsilesiyle) doÄŸurur.

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You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.

Nevertheless, no fictions.

Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.

He brushed away the thunder, then the clouds, then the colossal illusion of heaven. Yet still the sky was blue.

It is a world of words to the end of it, / In which nothing solid is its solid self.

Let be be finale of seem, the only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly." ? Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

It was a matter of perspective, I began to see. The whole world was crazy; I'd flattered myself by assuming I was a semifinalist." -- Dolores Price