Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from… — A.A. Attanasio Copy Share Image
Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“Love is a challenge with an illusion emanating an aura of otherness. Through their unrelenting attention, two smitten people can arouse a… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I'm under no illusion that the future will be a neat and tidy or desirable world. We will gain a lot of… — David Holmgren Copy Share Image
Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
The camera does not know what it takes; it captures materials with which you reconstruct, not so much what you saw as… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Certainly, possessions, money, and power can give a momentary thrill, the illusion of being happy, but they end up possessing us and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, taken out of boats and creeks, without any help… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Have you ever had a dream that you were certain was real, only to wake up and realize that everyone and everything… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
If you are not a skater, you probably can't imagine what I mean. I could try to tell you by saying it's… — Sonja Henie Copy Share Image
People create the illusion of acting natural, which is what I think most documentarians do in part because of the direct cinema… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane,… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“To successfully create illusion, the first thing you need is trust, but to perfect an illusion, the false reality most appear as… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
“Trust is such a devious term. When you trust someone, are you not merely assuming that they are what they say that… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“We are like waves in the ocean, each with a unique character and quality on the surface, but deep down we are… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“But when fundamentals are doubted, as at present, we must try to recover the candour and wonder of the child; the unspoilt… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There are lots of signs that average Israelis want peace. But after such a long war - this conflict has been going… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
“Let the things be illusions or not, after all I would then also be an illusion, and thus they are always like… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Let’s get one thing straight: Mexican food takes a certain amount of time to cook. If you don’t have the time, don’t… — Denise Chavez Copy Share Image
“On the back part of the step, toward the right, I saw a small iridescent sphere of almost unbearable brilliance. At first… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective… — Jesse Bering Copy Share Image
The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion.… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Let's make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up… — Franjo Tudjman Copy Share Image
I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Science and technology were often used by [the magician of old], even before they came into the marketplace on a mass basis.… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
Everybody needs to show respect to each others' ways and the cultural life that you get on this planet. Don't get caught… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
[T]he regime of diversions, surrogates, and tranquilizers that pass for today's 'distractions' and 'amusements' does not yet allow the modern woman to… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
People with autism never, ever feel at ease, wherever we are. Because of this, we wander off - or run away -… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
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