Illusion Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.”

Virginia Woolf

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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

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Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake…

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“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the…

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“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.”

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A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

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Even mud gives the illusion of depth.

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The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

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Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,…

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Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be.…

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Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering…

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We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

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Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…

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How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it,…

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Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

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