In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
What’s so bad about addiction? I can’t remember. Isn’t it something about giving up your freedom? Isn’t freedom an illusion? — Jeffrey Steingarten Copy Share Image
Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding… — Suzanne Pleshette Copy Share Image
[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Because of the illusion. You fall in love, it's intoxicating, and for a little while, you actually feel like you've become one… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes. — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
“...a time that is is neither day nor night, when the veil of illusion is thinner and we can see things in… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“For the human brain,” Edmond explained, “any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with ‘insufficient data,’… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Roland had learned to see himself, theoretically, as a crossing-place for a number of systems, all loosely connected. He had been trained… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
“He did not know how wide a country, arid and precipitous, must be crossed before the traveller through life comes to an… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Awakening is waking up from the daytime dream and realizing that who you thought you were is not limited to thought, emotion… — Katie Davis Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about Los Angeles is that it's still supplying the whole of the world with its dreams through… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
As for the petty little world of journalism, the media demonstrates how it, more than anyone, is careful to traffic only in… — Robert Faurisson Copy Share Image
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