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“I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“There is an old illusion—it is called good and evil.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.” Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Isn't a miserable reality better than the most interesting illusion?” Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
“People liked to imagine they were free to choose their own lives, but Beth had learned that choice was sometimes illusory.” Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One
“The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.” William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
“But neither do these come within the compass of our mental powers; and it was the duty of philosophy to destroy the illusions which had their origin in misconceptions, whatever darling hopes and valued expectations may be ruined by its explanations.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.” Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
“They come, an’ they quit an’ go on; an’ every damn one of ’em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ’em ever gets it. Just like heaven.” John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
“though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.” Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Meanwhile the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“He takes false shadows for true substances.” William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
“Perhaps most people in the world aren't trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It's all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real bind. You'd better remember that. People actually prefer not being free.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion” Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
“There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet” T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
“Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them, and to be unwilling to recognise them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“On the meridian of time there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
“They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation” William Gibson, Neuromancer

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