Quotes About Illusion

A veces creemos que las personas décimos de lotería: que están ahí para hacer realidad nuestras ilusiones absurdas

Have you ever thought of writing a biography?" "No. I write fiction." "Some would argue that no genre is more fictitious than a biography.

We all remain silent and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a nightmare that will pass. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what really happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour everything they left behind.

Nadie es lo que parece

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

Nada engaña mas que los recuerdos.

in that stupid and fatal way some men imagine they love a woman they can't tell apart from an apparition.

Las personas estamos dispuestas a creer cualquier cosa antes que la verdad

La verdad es un acuerdo que permite que los inocentes no tengan que convivir con la realidad. —No

Las apariencias no siempre engañan, pero casi siempre atontan

Todo lo que ocurre en la sociedad, en la vida pública, es una escenificación, un simulacro de aquello que intentamos hacer pasar por realidad pero no lo es.

What do I know? Few things are more deceptive than memories.

His legacy to me was his considerable repertoire of smoke and mirrors. And he asked me to let him go, because he had been born to be forgotten.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being.

She was invisible, so I imagined her as perfect. Next to her I was unworthy, vulgar, all too real.

Accursed be those whose dreams are made of paper and ink, for theirs will be the purgatory of vanity and disappointment.

Una basílica hecha de libros oculta en un palacio que no había existido nunca, un lugar al que sólo podría volver en sueños.

Creía haber ganado el mundo en una hora y que todavía no sabía que podía perderlo en un minuto»

Saberá o louco que está louco?Ou os loucos são os outros,que se empenham em convencê-lo da sua insanidade para salvaguardarem a sua existência de quimeras?

All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.

No éramos ni él ni yo los que nos encontrábamos, éramos dos cuerpos, dos mecanismos de funcionamiento, aparentemente acompasado en ocasiones, dos fantasmas con la máscara que cada uno se había fabricado para el otro.

When exposed to the light of day, the belief that objectivity protects us against irrationality and chaos does not seem to be true.

The lesson for the Intellectual is never to invest so much of yourself in any situation that you are willing to compromise your integrity in order to maintain the illusion. Once that cycle begins, it is nearly impossible to release yourself from it. The Intellectual frees herself from the shadow by knowing who she is at all times and living from her truth.

Then she began to quote from Shakespeare: 'But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit.