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Tag Name "Illusion" (1293)

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The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.
Thomas Merton
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Its really easy to get colors right. Its really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but its also an illusion.
Donna Karan
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Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.
James Anthony Froude
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It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
John Keats
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Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
Elbert Hubbard
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What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.
Osamu Dazai
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The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.
Umberto Eco
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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
Joseph Conrad
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One of the best ways to realize that age is an illusion is to have your body get older and realize that you are who you always have been.
Alan Cohen
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There's no point in clinging to illusions.
Eva Heller
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Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.
Bob Dylan
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Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. God's love for you and his choice of you constitute your worth. Accept that, and let it become the most important thing in your life.
Brennan Manning
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A system that rewards politicians skilled at campaigning - which is the art of creating an illusion - and that puts hundreds of billions of coerced taxpayer dollars at the disposal of the winners will tend to attract men and women with a comparative advantage in manipulation.
John Stossel
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Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.
Yann Martel
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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil
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The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.
Kurt Vonnegut
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This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.
Rumi
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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
Isabel Allende
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Om (AUM) is the truth of all truths, the light of all lights and the destroyer of all illusions.
Amit Ray
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The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all he beholds, hears or conceives otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness.
Aleister Crowley
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And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate.
Gustave Flaubert
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I loved the illusion, the conviction, the desire - whatever you want to call it - that the words were agents rather than extensions of reality. That they made my life happen, rather than just recorded it happening.
Eavan Boland
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I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.
Michael Jordan
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You can’t change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping.
Madeleine Bunting
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