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Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't - it's human.
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Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
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Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
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Reality is merely an illusion , albeit a very persistent one.
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Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
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Sharing with just your friends doesn't protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will disagree and argue that users can control what is shared with whom. But this is simply an illusion that makes us feel better about all the sharing we have done and are about to do.
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Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
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The illusion of progress can be achieved by simply rearranging the terms of description so that new acronyms are created.
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The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.
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The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
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