Quotes About Illusion

Éste es un mundo de sombras, y la magia es un bien escaso.

This is a world of shadows, Daniel, and magic is a rare asset.

recognized Coubert, the faceless man, immediately. His steely look, his shining eyes with no eyelids; his smile as he licked his nonexistent lips in the dark.

No sé ahora dónde leí una vez que en el fondo nunca hemos sido el de antes, que sólo recordamos lo que nunca sucedió

Las personas estamos dispuestas a creer cualquier cosa antes que al verdad.

we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened .

it occurred to me that perhaps the papier-mâché world that I accepted as real was only a stage setting

Going over all this in my mind, it occurred to me that perhaps the papier-mâché world that I accepted as real was only a stage setting. Much like the arrival of Spanish trains, in those stolen years you never knew when the end of childhood was due.

Marina me dijo una vez que solo recordamos lo que nunca sucedió. Pasaría una eternidad antes de que comprendiese aquellas palabras.

Only lies are one hundred percent believable because they don't need to justify reality, they simply have to tell us what we want to hear.

Loco es el que se tiene por cuerdo y cree que los necios no son de su condición.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality. – Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #2)

Las personas estamos dispuestas a creer en todo antes que en la verdad

When we stand in front of a coffin, we see only what is good, or what we want to see.

When you're young, you see the world as it should be, and when you're old you start to it as it really is.

was in diesem Dasein den Ausschlag gibt, ist allein der Schein.

La vita le aveva insegnato che viviamo di grandi e piccole menzogne quanto dell'aria. Diceva che se fossimo capaci di vedere senza paraocchi la realtà del mondo e di noi stessi per un solo giorno, dall'alba al tramonto, ci toglieremmo la vita o perderemmo la ragione.

La magia es tan sólo una extensión de la física

It's not such a bad idea. Self-deceit is the key to all impossible ventures.

We can even believe that we don't believe in anything, which is the greatest credulity of them all.

Una leggenda é una menzogna ideata per spiegare una verità universale. I luoghi in cui la menzogna e l'illusione avvelenano la terra sono particolarmente fertili per la sua coltura.

Reality never beats fiction, at least not quality fiction.

Pocas cosas engañan más que los recuerdos

This is the golden rule that sustains every artifice of paper and ink. Because when the lights go out, when the music ends and the stalls are empty again, the only thing that matters is the mirage that has been engraved in the theater of the imagination all readers hold in their mind.