Quotes About Illusion

I think that collectivization was an erroneous and unsuccessful measure and it was impossible to admit the error. To conceal the failure people had to be cured, by every means of terrorism, of the habit of thinking and judging for themselves, and forced to see what didn't exist, to assert the very opposite of what their eyes told them.

Intotdeauna omul neliber îÅŸi idealizeaz? nelibertatea.

Or again, take your red banner. You think it's a flag, isn't that what you think? Well, it isn't a flag. It's the purple kerchief of the death woman, she uses it for luring. And why for luring? She waves it and she nods and winks and lures young men to come and be killed, then she sends famine and plague. That's what it is. And you went and believed her. You thought it was a flag. You thought it was: Come to me, all ye poor and proletarians of the world.

The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim. In the case of some men, compassion for a woman exceeds all measure and transports her to an unreal, entirely imaginary world.

What must one be, to rave year after year with delirious feverishness about nonexistent, long-extinct themes, and to know nothing, to see nothing around one!

Um homem a ferros tende sempre a idealizar a sua escravatura.

Tienes esperanzas? —preguntó Lazuli. —Como no las tenía desde hacía muchísimo tiempo —dijo Wolf—. Pero no me inspira mucha confianza. Ocurrirá como las otras veces. —¿Qué pasó las otras veces? —dijo Lazuli. —Nada —respondió Wolf—. Una vez terminado, no quedaba nada. Sólo decepción. En fin....no se puede permanecer siempre a ras de suelo.

There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.

A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren't who we think they are.

Immaculate Deception.

When it comes to love, everyone is a liar.

It's a wonderful epiphany: with a lie I can change reality; with a lie I can change the world.

It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.

Fe es aquello que nos permite creer en cosas que sabemos que no son ciertas.

I heard once of an American who so defined faith: 'that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

I heard once of an American who so defined faith: 'that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.' For one, I follow that man.

the more apparatus a magician carries about with him – coloured powders, stuffed cats, magical hats and so forth – the greater the fraud you will eventually discover him to be!" And what, inquired Mr Horrocks politely, were the few tools that a magician did require? "Why! Nothing really," said Mr Norrell. "Nothing but a silver basin for seeing visions in.

He walked around Mr Norrell slowly, considering him from every angle. Then, most disconcerting of all, he plucked Mr Norrell's wig from his head and looked underneath, as if Mr Norrell were a cooking pot on the fire and he wished to know what was for dinner.

There was no one there. Which is to say there was someone there. Miss Wintertowne lay upon the bed, but it would have puzzled philosophy to say now whether she were someone or no one at all. They

They have Matthew Rose Sorensen back – or so they believe. A man with his face and voice and gestures moves about the world, and that is enough for them.

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? If some people didn't see these things, what was the matter with them? Were they blind or something?

A volte, quando avete capito che il vostro treno non si sta veramente muovendo, potete passare un altro mezzo minuto sospesi tra due regni della coscienza: quello che sa che non vi state muovendo e quello che invece ne ha la sensazione. Potete svolazzare avanti e indietro tra queste percezioni e provare una specie di vertigine mentale. E se è così, siete nel territorio della pazzia: un luogo dove le false impressioni hanno tutte le caratteristiche della realtà.

How could I say for certain that I wasn't, if I couldn't say for certain that a curtain wasn't a mountain range.

Pleasure is a vain illusion; she draws you on to a thousand follies, errors, and I may say vices, and then leaves you to deplore your thoughtless credulity.