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• How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

  Hanif Kureishi

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• An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

  Arthur Miller

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  Tags in Exhausted, Illusions

• Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we’ve ‘discovered’ something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I’m not trying to prove anything – I just want to have kids.

  Jane Pauley

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  Tags in Illusions, Babies

• It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

  Edith Pargeter

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  Tags in Man, Illusions

• Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room’s composition.

  Dan Flavin

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• I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

  Conrad Veidt

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Public, Illusions, Forget

• It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

  Gertrude Stein

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  Tags in Natural, Illusions, Hope

• Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Topics in Vision

  Tags in Grandeur, Illusions, Greatness

• I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

  Taylor Caldwell

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  Tags in Illusions, Turned, Days

• He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Topics in God

  Tags in Illusions, Renounce, Childish

• A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

  Bertrand Russell

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  Tags in Illusions, Error, Judgment

• Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

  Charles M. Schulz

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  Tags in Illusions, Home, Decorate

• There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  Tags in Illusions, Wake

• However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Illusions, Common Sense, Hope

• To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

  Aldous Huxley

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  Tags in Illusions, Dogs

• The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

  Antonio Gramsci

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• Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

  Miguel de Cervantes

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  Tags in Illusions, Dreams

• Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

  Albert Camus

  Topics in Friendship, Honesty

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Illusions

• Relationships are all there is.
  Everything in the universe only exists because it is
  in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation.
  We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

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  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Illusions, Interdependence, Relationships

• 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 know life at all.

  Joni Mitchell

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Illusions