159 quotes found
“Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.”
“How do you write a memory? For that matter, what is a memory? A remembrance, a dream of the past that floats into the present on occasion? What are memories? Are they illusion? For if memory is ill...”
“Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.”
“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.”
“All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.”
“When your heart truly adores somebody, your mind perceives a halo on that man's head.”
“Don’t become manipulated by the illusion of who you think you are, or who you think you should be.”
“Where do we people go if not towards the perfection of our own illusion?”
“And what's care?What's coldness?Why you are so foolish of your freedom?...Merely an illusion... programmed.....”
“yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.”
“No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.”
“As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justifying the other's activity, despised it in his heart. To each of them it seemed that the life he ...”
“A push-up bra is to a woman’s chest … what 'breathing-in' is to a man’s stomach.”
“Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.”
“Was it just fear? the voices wonder. We were fearful in the best of times; how could we cope with the worst? So we found the tallest walls and poured ourselves behind them. We kept pouring until we...”
“Magic lives in curves not angles.”
“We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.”
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving.”
“Aspects are within us and who seems most kingly is king.”
