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“Truth about tears is that , most tears are the result of a delusion”
“The end of an delusion is invariably sadness or tears”
“The grandest form of delusion is misconstruing the obvious. Persons with an open, inquisitive, and intuitive mind can detect hidden clues that aggressive, narrow-minded, and impatient rationalist f...”
“I was sane once. It was horrible.”
“He informed Byrdie that his social engineering ambitions betrayed all the delusions of grandeur that you might expect from the son of a poet.”
“Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.”
“Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.”
“It's not that girls are delusional, per se. It's just that they have this subtle ability to warp actual circumstances into something different.”
“I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude yourself if you want to carry on in this life.”
“I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your ...”
“I love our judicial system It's where Trump's fanciful delusions go to die.”
“We cannot achieve personal enlightenment – a clarification of our souls – until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life includes witnessing and personally experiencing pain.”
“In dream, delusion, and fantasy, exist man’s next best reality: that place where he is the creator of his own worlds; where he builds, learns, discovers and entertains; is master of all outcomes, h...”
“Gen-Ys are delusional; Most people are not special—otherwise “special” wouldn’t mean anything. Even right now, most of Gen-Ys reading this are thinking, “Good point. But I actually am one of the fe...”
“Hope – or perhaps delusion – was a flame that had stayed lit, even though its scorching light would hurt. It had refused to go out.”
“Mental –ill health is delusion.”
“We dream — it is good we are dreaming —It would hurt us — were we awake —But since it is playing — kill us,And we are playing — shriek —What harm? Men die — externally —It is a truth — of Blood —Bu...”
“Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see ...”
“I’d rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end…”
“We live, I suppose, in the unconfessed hope that the rules will at some point be broken, along with the normal course of things and custom and history, and that this will happen to us, that we will...”
