Illusion Quotes

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. — W. Somerset Maugham
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel. — Andre Maurois
Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity. — Joyce Maynard
I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions. — Alexander McQueen
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion. — Mike Mills
As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will… — Alan Moore
Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until… — Alan Moore
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of… — Thomas Moore
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. — Iris Murdoch
You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things,… — Rafael Nadal
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. — George Jean Nathan
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. — Henri Nouwen
I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it… — Gary Numan
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. — George Orwell
God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with. — Luis Palau
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be… — Blaise Pascal
You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest… — Pope John Paul II
Official truths are often powerful illusions. — John Pilger
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world. — Steven Pinker
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid… — Steven Pinker
Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the… — Luigi Pirandello
Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends. — John C. Reilly
I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion. — Joe Rogan
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true.… — Francoise Sagan

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