Quotes About Illusion

Apesar de desejar muito todas as coisas que o dinheiro compra, havia uma corrente diabólica a desviar-me para outro caminho, para a anarquia, para a pobreza e para a doidice. Tinha aquela ilusão louca de que um homem pode levar uma vida decente sem se alugar como um Judas

It is possible to make people contented with their servitude. You can provide them with endless amounts of distraction and propaganda.

Most people inhabit a universe that is like French café au lait—fifty per cent skim milk and fifty per cent stale chicory, half psychophysical reality and half conventional verbiage.

Une vérité sans éclat peut être éclipsée par un mensonge passionnant.

This is not a long bridge, but it goes on for ever. I am not far from the bank, but I will never get there. I walk but I never move. Fast or slow, running, turning, doubling back, jumping, throwing myself or stopping; nothing makes any difference.

Yes of course I know it's all a dream. Isn't everything?

All reality is a game.

They were here, and then they weren't, and that was all there was.

Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely.

Who you are is less important than what you seem.

The next day was a dream of such perfection that I have never approached the like again. It was, of course, all illusion, but I like to think of it still in isolation from what came after,as a moment of bliss, one of those days when on is no longer oneself, but becomes bigger, and better, able to overcome the normal preoccupations of life and breathe more freely.

I painted not what I saw but how you wished to be seen.

You are about to awake when you dream that you are dreaming.

How soon Mathis had been proved right and how soon his own little sophistries had been exploded in his face!

Mundus Vult Decipi

It reads better than it lives .

It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will change or die. It is the future they are innocent of. Fifty years on we look at them with the godly knowledge of how they turne dout after all - who they married, the date of their death - with no thought for who will one day be holding photographs of us.

In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot.

I said I didn't like tricks, I liked life as I knew it recreated on the page. He said it wasn't possible to recreate life on the page without tricks.

The beginning of conscious life was the end of illusion, the illusion on no-being, and the eruption of the real. The triumph of realism over magic, of is over seems .

Hiába csillogott oly tetszetÅ'sen az értelem, nem oldott meg semmit.

part of a daydream's enticement was the illusion that she was helpless before its logic

The beginning of conscious life was the end of illusion, the illusion of non-being, and the eruption of the real. The triumph of realism over magic, of is over seems.

a sound principle being that nothing was ever as one imagined it, and this was an efficient means of excluding the worst.