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Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
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A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
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A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
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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.
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As both capitalist and communist states - not to mention the technological world - have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.
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Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
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He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
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How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
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I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
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I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be more dangerous because it provides the illusion that things have been fixed without the substance.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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