Quotes About Illusion

Nichts ist trügerischer als eine offenkundige Tatsache.

In questo nostro mondo non conta quel che si fa», disse amaramente il mio amico. «Importa più quel che si riesce a far credere alla gene di aver fatto. Ma lasciamo stare.»

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence," returned my companion, bitterly. "The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done. Never mind," he continued, more brightly, after a pause.

Someone in a novel, was he not? I don't take much stock of detectives in novels--chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them.

a conjurer gets no credit once he has explained his trick;

Tan peligroso es quitarle su cachorro a un tigre como arrebatarle a una mujer una ilusión».

Qué estúpidos fuimos al suponer que la muerte era nuestro enemigo!

I'm not going to tell you much more of the case, Doctor. You know a conjuror gets no credit when once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he answered, laughing.

Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.

All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.

Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.

People in the village often said she ought to have been extremely attractive, because her parents had been. Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together; this was the terrible trick nature had played on her.

I had the sudden insight that nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.

Što ako do?em do kraja života i shvatim kako sam iz dana u dan o?ekivala ?ovjeka koji nikad nije došao? Postat ?u poput plesa?ice koja se od djetinstva priprema za predstavu u kojoj nikad ne?e nastupati.

Pitala sam se jesu li muškarci doista toliko zaslijepljeni ljepotom da bi se osje?ali povlaštenima proživjeti život s nekim stvarnim demonom ako bi to bio lijepi demon.

Când Hatsumomo trecea pe lâng? mine pe coridor, în toat? splendoarea ei, cu machiajul alb str?lucind deasupra chimonoului întunecat, ca luna pe cerul palid al nopÈ›ii, sunt sigur? c? È™i un orb ar fi g?sit-o frumoas?.

I'd been a child with my head in a bag. All I'd seen day after day was Gion, so much so that I'd come to think Gion was everything, and that the only thing that mattered in the world was Gion. But now that I was outside Kyoto, I could see that for most people life had nothing to do with Gion at al; and of course, I couldn't stop from thinking of the other life I'd once led.

Me pregunté si los hombres se dejarían cegar hasta tal punto por la belleza que llegaran a sentirse privilegiados de poder vivir con un verdadero demonio, mientras fuera un demonio hermoso.

Tuve la súbita intuición de que nada en la vida es tan simple como imaginamos.

M? întrebam dac? b?rbaÈ›ii pot fi atât de orbiÈ›i de frumuseÈ›e încât s? fie dispuÈ™i s?-È™i petreac? viaÈ›a al?turi de un demon, cu condiÈ›ia s? fie un demon frumos.

I told my mother I thought someone had poked a hole in her eyes and all the ink had drained out

Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

The truth doesn't only excist of what you see.