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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

4.8 · 42 votes

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Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few mon

AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

3.7 · 52 votes · 116 reads

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Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

3.1 · 30 votes · 162 reads

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

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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.

Francoise Sagan

WriterFrench1935 · 20th century

3.1 · 55 votes · 133 reads

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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.

WriterFrench1896 · 19th century

4.5 · 30 votes · 180 reads

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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

3.7 · 51 votes

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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

5.0 · 25 votes · 176 reads

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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

3.1 · 20 votes · 127 reads

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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

3.6 · 64 votes

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
4.4 · 22 votes · 60 reads
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The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.
Anonymous
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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Woodrow T. Wilson
PoliticianAmerican1856 · 19th century
4.6 · 64 votes · 131 reads
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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana
PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century
3.6 · 26 votes · 141 reads
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