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Illusions Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and…
- What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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
- Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. — Giotto di Bondone
- We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by… — Daniel J. Boorstin
- Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. — Elizabeth Bowen
- I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions. — Taylor Caldwell
- 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
- You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the… — Barry Lopez
- Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am… — Sarah McLachlan
- The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't… — Joni Mitchell
- All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. — Robert Louis Stevenson