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Illusions Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.
- Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
More Illusions Quotes
- He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. — Mikhail Bakunin
- The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. — Robert Louis Stevenson
- One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of… — George Eliot
- Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. — Elizabeth Bowen
- I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. — Paul Cezanne
- Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. — Jack Kornfield