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We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.
Maybe anything that anybody ever has is for now. What happened before is gone, and what will happen later is an illusion.
Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind.
My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.
I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.
Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.
And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it.
...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.
Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?
I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.
The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.
Masks are the order of the day - and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow and afraid.
Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.
The inspiration for my illusions comes from many places. Most often they come from my dreams, or an everyday occurrence in life.
Anything you can say, think, feel, trust or feel is untrue - is an illusion. The fact that there are these things is an illusion.
Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.
Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?
Everyone should know--there's no such thing as a decent human being. It's just an illusion. And when it's gone, it's really gone.
Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.
Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.
If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed.
The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit
Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear.
The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no longer judged.
I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.
You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?
I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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 to stop us going mad.
And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.
Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.
When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.