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Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.
I took a little break after 'The Palace of Illusions' to clear my head.
Manstein is a man of illusions. ... He believes Hitler will listen to facts.
Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.
There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
I have no illusions about our elected politicians. Pakistani democracy is anything but perfect.
[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.
When you empty yourself of the illusions of who and what you think you are, there is less to lose than you had feared.
Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery
I am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood.
If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.
We are under no illusions that we have no given right to win things, but winning the FA Cup is not enough.
The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.
I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.
The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
A crisis event often explodes the illusions that anchor our lives.
Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.
Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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?
Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.
In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.
I had no illusions that my career would be any longer than three years tops.
The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.
I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it.
My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.
If silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it?
Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.
Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.
The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.
All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.
Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all.
the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.
A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.
We're in the world of creating illusions and giving people the ability to dream and to be inspired or moved.
The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand
And straight reality is always cold
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.
I have no illusions of being the big box office draw. But I would like to have some choices.
God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.
Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.
