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The whisper of a distant rose or the dusty trail of sunlight on cedar--a moment merchanising matter and memory. Silence knows, before stars swirl in fading breaths of twilight.
Author:
Serafine Gonsalves
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In every shadow, there reveals an ethereal dance remind us mundane gives way to the transience of dreams, endlessly moments gripping nothing.
Author:
Aria Riverton
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In the dance of fleeting shadows, whispers of potential refuse permanence; they teach us that ebbs of illumination rival the solidity of narrative.
Author:
Clara Gotham
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Fleeting shadows teach us that nothing is permanent; in their velvety darkness lies the wisdom of enjoying the shimmer of light while it stays.
Author:
Sofia Henrich
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The dance of fleeting shadows teaches us that luminosity is often confined to the skillful projection of veiled depths; in their transience lies the piquant reminder that everything within reach celebrates both obscurity and momentary brilliance.
Author:
Camille Gorisse
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In the footsteps we tread unnoticed, we may serialize silence into strength, embracing the truth that even whispers buoys shadows into reach.
Author:
Aurelia Finch
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The charm of precarious insights dances like sunlight on rippling water--evanescent yet enlightening, silent witnesses to truth's fleeting grip.
Author:
Xara Bolton
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Ambient music threads over time like the wisps of a tendril crane through water, crafting a transparent narrative that feels simultaneously forgotten and resoundingly present.
Author:
Mara Simmons
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Quiet determination is the invisible thread weaving reality from dreams, pulling unseen facades tightly into lasting shapes that fortune can hardly resist.
Author:
Elara Voss
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In the awkward spaces of silence, the inarticulate thrums with the melody of truths unseen; something intoxicating trembles just beyond words.
Author:
Alexa Pruett
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Like autumn leaves dancing through chance gusts of wind, fleeting friendships carve moments in the soul often forgotten yet undeniably loved.
Author:
Mia Whatsherface
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Cryptic artistry spills intrigue from unseen caverns, inviting the perceiver to contour myths where voiceless colors whisper in shrouded surrealism.
Author:
Elena Marlowe
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Like sand glistening through fingers, the luster of ephemeral connections is not merely loss within ambiguity but a vivid reminder of life's continued motion--beguiling us to fans the relentless flames of reinvention.
Author:
Eliana Trent
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Amidst chaos, organized serendipity unfolds like a kaleidoscope, transforming unpredictability into spontaneous beauty.
Author:
Lila Thompson
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Every forgotten dream is a stone unturned, cradling secrets of a thousand titles they were meant to wield.
Author:
Alex Reyes
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Love is the only reality; the rest is just an illusion.
Author:
John Lennon
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The greatest power lies in authenticity, for it speaks louder than any illusion.
Author:
Samantha Price
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Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
Author:
Timothy Zahn
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If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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We have an illusion of security, we don't have security.
Author:
Isaac Yeffet
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Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
Author:
Herman Wouk
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In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
Author:
Rebecca West
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Author:
Orson Welles
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People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud.
Author:
Charlie Watts
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There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
Author:
George Washington
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Author:
Voltaire
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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
Author:
Voltaire
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The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.
Author:
Guy Verhofstadt
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
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It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will.
Author:
Kim Sung
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The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
Author:
Tom Stoppard
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The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
Author:
John Steinbeck
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Author:
Socrates
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The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
Author:
Sydney Smith
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I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Author:
Sydney Smith
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The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.
Author:
Duncan Sheik
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
Author:
George Shaw
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Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.
Author:
Natan Sharansky
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I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.
Author:
William Scott
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Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.
Author:
Paul Schrader
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People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
Author:
Jose Saramago
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A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.
Author:
Edward Sapir
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It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.
Author:
Edward Sapir
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I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature.
Author:
Victor Salva
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The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
Author:
Charles Rosen
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I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.
Author:
Joe Rogan
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I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.
Author:
Guy Ritchie
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I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.
Author:
Rick Renzi
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I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.
Author:
Priscilla Presley
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You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.
Author:
Luigi Pirandello
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You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
Author:
Pope Paul II
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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
Author:
George Orwell
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Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
Author:
Jack Nicholson
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Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
Author:
Arnold Newman
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A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
Author:
George Nathan
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The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
Author:
Alva Myrdal
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Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
Author:
James Murray
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If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.
Author:
Johann Most
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Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Author:
Thomas Moore
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What staggers me is not the persistence of illusion, but the persistence of the world in the face of illusion.
Author:
A. Mojtabai
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No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
Author:
Larry McMurtry
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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
Author:
Andre Maurois
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
Author:
W. Maugham
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The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
Author:
George Lucas
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Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
Author:
Mario Llosa
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
Author:
Walter Lippmann
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I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.
Author:
Hugh Leonard
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
Author:
Lewis Lapham
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We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
Author:
Talib Kweli
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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
Author:
Talib Kweli
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If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
Author:
Stanley Kubrick
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Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Author:
Arthur Koestler
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I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.
Author:
David Knopfler
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The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression.
Author:
Ramman Kenoun
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It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.
Author:
Donna Karan
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There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.
Author:
Meir Kahane
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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
Author:
Grace Jones
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We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.
Author:
Mordecai Johnson
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Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
Author:
Javan
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Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.
Author:
Joseph Jarman
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The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
Author:
Derek Jarman
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What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
Author:
Max Jacob
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Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
Author:
David Icke
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He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I never thought of myself as an actress. Boy, he sidetracked me in a great way!
Author:
Judy Holliday
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
Author:
Herman Hesse
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That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.
Author:
Joe Henderson
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The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.
Author:
Lafcadio Hearn
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As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.
Author:
John Hawkes
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We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.
Author:
George Harrison
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
Author:
Barbara Harrison
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I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
Author:
Tom Hall
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The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.
Author:
Philip Guston
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Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
Author:
Philip Guston
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The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
Author:
Horace Greeley
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Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
Author:
Al Goldstein
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Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
Author:
Arthur Goldberg
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And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.
Author:
Mel Gibson
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We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Author:
Judy Garland
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How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
Author:
Judy Garland
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Future nostalgia dances upon the edge of tomorrows twilight, a whimsical tapestry wherein our longings weave dreams preempting time's short breath.
Author:
Eliana Moss
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Author:
Sigmund Freud
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Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
Author:
Arthur Erickson
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.
Author:
Jesse Eisenberg
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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it.
Author:
Atom Egoyan
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No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
Author:
Marguerite Duras
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We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that my God is better than your God. So our show is a spiritual show, not a religious show.
Author:
Roma Downey
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We fashion dreams from memories brushed half-remembered--a seeking of warmth sculpted through an illusion of the untouched future.
Author:
Aisling Terrow
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We gaze back in fondness for a future that never came, realizing every bright possibility dims like a rose-tinted sunset over an unchanging past.
Author:
Alex Estrada
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What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.
Author:
Jean Damme
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Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
Author:
David Cronenberg
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To me, Batman is definately Bruce Wayne's darker side. The challenge is playing it as two separate aspects of the same person. I have to create the illusion of a Dark Knight, who's mysterious and strong.
Author:
Kevin Conroy
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Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Author:
Joseph Conrad
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We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
Author:
Cyril Connolly
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It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.
Author:
John Coleman
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Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
Author:
Albert Claude
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For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.
Author:
Perry Christie
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
Author:
Noam Chomsky
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Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
Author:
Margaret Cho
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Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
Author:
Alexander Chase
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Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
Author:
Angela Carter
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True spontaneity knows no rules; it's the frame in which an unpainted network of possibilities can evolve instantaneously.
Author:
Alina Kingston
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It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'
Author:
Gabriel Byrne
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Author:
Robert Burton
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The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.
Author:
Craig Bruce
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Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.
Author:
James Broughton
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People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.
Author:
David Brinkley
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Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.
Author:
Jeff Bridges
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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.
Author:
Andre Breton
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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Author:
Ludwig Borne
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Author:
Daniel Boorstin
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Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
Author:
Allan Bloom
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Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.
Author:
Juliette Binoche
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Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.
Author:
Kathryn Bigelow
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Author:
Georges Bernanos
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Author:
Saul Bellow
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It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
Author:
Pierre Bayle
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The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.
Author:
Julian Barbour
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
Author:
Sai Baba
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Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
Author:
Sai Baba
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There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things.
Author:
Jane Asher
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They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.
Author:
Mohammed al-Sahaf
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Tradition is the illusion of permanance.
Author:
Woody Allen
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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Author:
Woody Allen
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Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
Author:
Scott Adams
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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Author:
Douglas Adams
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You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.
Author:
Peter Abrahams
