Quotes About Illusion

Lumea se întemeiaz? pe înÈ™el?ciune, iar viaÈ›a este o iluzie. ?i sufletu-i o iluzie. Trebuie, totuÈ™i, s? ai atâta minte ca s? È™tii s? deosebeÈ™ti iluziile pl?cute de cele nepl?cute. În hypocaustum, poruncesc s? se ard? lemn de cedru pres?rat cu ambr?, pentru c? în via?? prefer aromele, nu duhoarea.

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No entienden los más las cosas con las que se topan, ni pese haberlas aprendido las conocen, pero a ellos se lo parece

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage."

All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks… strike, strike through the mask!

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

Life is a dream, a little more coherent than most.

in the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe himself propelled upward.

Young man, until you know that all names are false you know nothing; not even the clothes on your body are what they seem to be.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Reality is a fiction with an unlimited budget.

So if money is fiction, finance capital is the fiction of a fiction. That's what all those criminals trade in: fictions.

Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy.

Es ist gar keine Katze, sagte ich mir, nur die Verpelzung der graugestreiften Langeweile, die Geduld der Angst in einer schmalen Straße.

Dos campos a aldeia parece um amontoado de casas entre as colinas, cuja planta só pode ser reconhecida através das cores. Tudo parece próximo, e quando nos aproximamos não chegamos lá. Eu nunca entendi essas distâncias. Eu sempre estava atrás dos caminhos, tudo corria à minha frente. Eu só tinha a poeira na face. E em lugar nenhum havia um fim.

O campo de trabalho é um mundo prático. Vergonha e horror são luxos a que ninguém se pode dar. Age-se com preserverante indiferença, talvez com desalentada satisfação. Não tem nada a ver com o prazer da desgraça alheia. Acredito que quanto menor é o acanhamento perante os mortos, maior é o apego à vida. Mais nos deixamos embarcar em qualquer ilusão.

The dazzled girl's eyelashes were fluttering so hard she could only have seen Nicky in stop-go animation.

We humans make all that present which is never there, and which is always hurrying past us like the tumble of a stream, an all-important thing.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people, some of the time, but you can fool yourself anytime you need to badly enough.

The glamour of inexperience is over your eyes," Mr. Rochester answered; "and you see it through a charmed medium: you cannot discern that the gilding is slime and the silk draperies cobwebs; that the marble is sordid slate, and the polished woods mere refuse chips and scaly bark.

The princess] looks out and sees the humble musician with his lute. But unless the musician turns out to be a prince in disguise, this story cannot end well.

Lying gives him a deep and subtle pleasure, so deep and subtle he does not know he is lying; he thinks he is the most truthful of princes.

Fantasy is unconstrained by truth.