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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. - Of Human Bondage
View quotes by W Somerset Maugham
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
View quotes by Arthur Koestler
I'm all for the illusion that I'm a sex symbol.
View quotes by James Nesbitt
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages
View quotes by Horace Greeley
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion. [And what about belief in the illusion of the absence of illusions?]
View quotes by Barbara Harrison
Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness
View quotes by Henrik Ibsen
Time is an illusion, lunchtime, doubly so
View quotes by Douglas Adams
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
View quotes by Albert Einstein
Animation is about creating the illusion of life.
View quotes by Brad Bird
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
View quotes by Andre Maurois
How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
View quotes by Judy Garland
What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion
View quotes by Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
View quotes by Georges Bernanos
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
View quotes by Karl Kraus
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
View quotes by Karl Kraus
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The great illusion (Title of book 1910 re futility of war)
View quotes by Sir Norman Angell
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
View quotes by Stanley Kubrick
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
View quotes by Saul Bellow
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
View quotes by Sigmund Freud
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