Quotes About Illusion

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.

Rien n'est plus trompeur qu'une photo : on croit fixer un moment heureux pour l'éternité alors qu'on ne crée que de la nostalgie

Rien n'est plus trompeur qu'une photo. On croit fixer un moment heureux pour l' éternité alors qu'on ne crée que de la nostalgie. On appuie sur le déclencheur, et hop, une seconde plus tard, l'instant à disparu.

Ništa ne može da prevari više nego fotografija: verujemo da smo ovekove?ili jedan sre?an trenutak, ali smo samo stvorili nostalgiju.

En prétendant raconter la vie dans vos romans, vous mentez. La vie est trop complexe pour être mise équation ou pour se laisser enfermer dans les pages d'un livre. Elle est plus forte que les maths ou que la fiction. Le roman, c'est de la fiction. Et la fiction, c'est techniquement du mensonge.

It does not always work, but sometimes, for a few hours, fiction is genuinely more powerful than life.

Et puis, vous savez très bien que le succès repose sur un malentendu.

culpa por ser una burguesa enclaustrada en una realidad más falsa que el decorado de una telenovela...

Es triste que nuestro cerebro no sea capaz de almacenar los recuerdos de cada segundo de nuestra vida. En la memoria solo queda pedacería. Además, la percepción nos juega trucos. Superponemos hechos reales con imaginarios y lo que dábamos como sucedido no es más que una invención. El recuerdo de nuestro pasado queda a mitad de camino entre lo ficticio y lo verídico

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

An absence of fear, Elisa realizes, can be mistaken for happiness, but it isn't the same thing. Not even close.

All belief systems are elaborate fabrications, if logic is followed out to the end.

Kelly was not going to remove her glasses. No matter what the television said about it being safe to do during the 'totality'. The television also told her she wouldn't age if she bought expensive creams and pills.

Ofelia's mother didn't know it, but she also believed in a fairy tale. Carmen Cardoso believed the most dangerous tale of all: the one of the prince who would save her.

For meg var Oasen et navn som aldri hadde slått an. Det meste i Fyllingsdalen var grønnere enn den steinørkenen her. Men så var det ingen skjermet idyll i det de kalte Lagunen heller. Navnevalgene til kjøpesentre i bergensregionen minnet mer om lengselen ut til solrike steder enn det de var: overfylte maurtuer til kommersialismens pris.

The world is a drama, staged in a dream

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

One cannot break one's chains when there are no chains to be seen. One's imprisonment is therefore organized as a perfectly ordinary, not over-comfortable form of daily life. Everything looks as if it were made of solid, lasting stuff. But on the contrary it is a life in which one is falling towards an abyss. It isn't visible. But if one closes one's eyes, one can hear its rush and roar.

To je zabluda. Knjiga ne može da zameni svet. To je nemogu?no. U životu sve ima svoj smisao i svoj zadatak koji ne mogu bez ostatka biti ispunjeni ne?im drugim. Nije mogu?no, na primer, proživeti nešto posredstvom nekog zamenika. Tako je i sa svetom i knjigom. Pokušavamo da život zatvorimo u knjige kao pticu peva?icu u kavez. Ali, u tome ne uspevamo. Naprotiv! ?ovek od knjiških apstrakcija ne izgra?uje ništa drugo nego sistem u vidu kaveza za sebe.

W]ir dürfen ... ruhig sagen, daß allen großen Gestaltungen des Mitlebens der Menschen ein Wahn vorgeleuchtet hat, daß die Menschen immer nur durch Wahn aneinander gebunden waren, daß immer nur der Wahn die Individuen zu höheren Organisationsformen und Gesamtheiten aufgebaut hat.

I never trust mere appearance - one's senses offer such an insecure guarantee of abstract perception. - What's The Use of White Dog Shit?

the face before him was like nothing he had ever seen before. It was smooth, with a black strip of cloth tied over its forehead, and yet it was deeply furrowed, like the sea, that can have tall waves but not a wrinkle on the surface. The eyes were like dark chasms and yet they were the eyes of a human being and not empty sockets. The skin was a greenish olive colour and looked as if it were made of bronze...

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.