Quotes with illusion

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  • Stanley Kubrick If you can talk brilliantly enough about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
    Stanley Kubrick
    American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1928 - 1999)
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  • Arthur Erickson Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Milan Kundera Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.
    De grap (1967)
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Angela Carter Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Mark Twain It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Arthur J. Goldberg Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
    Arthur J. Goldberg
    American jurist and politician
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  • Greg Anderson Let's face it. In most of life we really are interdependent. We need each other. Staunch independence is an illusion, but heavy dependence isn't healthy, either. The only position of long-term strength is interdependence: win/win.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Ludwig Borne Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
    Ludwig Borne
    German journalist and critic (1786 - 1837)
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  • André Maurois Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Alexander Chase Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Albert Claude Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Oliver Stone Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years ago for 60 thousand dollars. I could sell it today for 600. The illusion has become real and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it.
    Oliver Stone
    American writer and filmmaker (1946 - )
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  • Henri Nouwen Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
    Henri Nouwen
    Dutch Catholic priest and writer (1932 - 1996)
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  • Mae West My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Marguerite Duras No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Arthur Koestler Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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