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Tradition is the illusion of permanance.


Woody Allen
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A woman should be an illusion.


Ian Fleming
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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.


Douglas Adams
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There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.


Meir Kahane
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Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.


Angela Carter
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There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.


Ramana Maharshi
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The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.


Derek Jarman
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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.


George Orwell
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.


Daniel J. Boorstin
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The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.


Guy Verhofstadt
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
Rebecca West
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.


Barton Gellman
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Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.


Philip Treacy
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.


W. Somerset Maugham
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We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.


Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
Allan Bloom
Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.
Joseph Jarman
The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
Alva Myrdal
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We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy Garland
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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
Parker Palmer
Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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.
Marina Abramovic
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
Ted Chiang
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I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.
William Scott
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.
Al Pacino
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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.
Luigi Pirandello
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Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.
David Blaine
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The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.
Anthony Hopkins
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We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.
Patti Stanger
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I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.
Eve Ensler
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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
Andre Breton
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Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I'm going to get better that day.
Rafael Nadal
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Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.
Francis Spufford
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The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.
Lafcadio Hearn
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The Matrix itself is not some external evil, but rather an outcome of our own error, our karmic payoff of past actions. Not merely illusion, it is an allusion to a founding myth of our culture.
Gregory Benford
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The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.
Philip Guston
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What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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People are starting to wake up to the fact that a media/political party-complex basically decide our candidate, then create the illusion for the rest of us that in fact we're the ones who did the deciding.
Marianne Williamson
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
Rafael Nadal
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Now there was no wonder in the Statue of Liberty illusion because he, Copperfield, attempted to do something so large that it stretched the credibility of the audience to the point where most people didn't believe any of it anymore.
Doug Henning