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“We were on Barrow Street now."Who is the man with the scar?" I said.She shot me a glance, and her face hardened. "You saw him?""How could I miss? He was the real center of attention. Didn't you go ...”
“There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.”
“When your heart truly adores somebody, your mind perceives a halo on that man's head.”
“It takes discipline to turn illusion into reality.”
“There are times when the truth can only show you an illusion.”
“Deceptions of the senses are the truths of perception.”
“If you know something is an illusion, why pretend it is reality?”
“One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.”
“One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion”
“You can only carry the illusive personality in your mind until you realize the truth behind it, but the time you realize the truth, you just cannot hold the illusive self of yours, in the mind.”
“Voice in the nightA voice whispered to me last night: 'There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!”
“...but it was just her mind playing cruel tricks, and she tried to push away the irrational thought that Richard was still in there, waiting for someone to save his life.”
“The more we delve into quantum mechanics the stranger the world becomes; appreciating this strangeness of the world, whilst still operating in that which you now consider reality, will be the found...”
“The mind's best trick is the illusion that it exists.”
“Swinging back and forthdeeply stuck in tranced forbidden dreamWanting not to recognize fantasyis purely schemeElaborate facade of lustinto realityTransferring thoughts of illusionwill be fatality”
“Indeed if one had just seen him at the end of the evening with the dusk and the mist of the fenlands close behind him he might have believed that in the dusk and the mist was an army that followed ...”
“Everything in our life is an illusion.”
“When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?”
“Dont become manipulated by the illusion of who you think you are, or who you think you should be.”
“Since then he had been walking with a ghost: the miserable ghost of his illusion. Only he had somehow vivified, coloured, substantiated it, by the force of his own great need as a man might breath...”
