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    So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.

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    So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in the illusion are becoming unglued.

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    So you think you've found the solution but it's just another illusion.

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    Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.

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    Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

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    Suffering is an illusion.

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    Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

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    That's the illusion - the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out - and it has affected us in many ways. That's a part of the idea that professing is enough.

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    That’s the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there’s somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally say, Ah, I’ve arrived. (Of course there is no such place. There’s only a succession of waitings until you go home.)

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    The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.

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    The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

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    The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.

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    The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

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    The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.

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    That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

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    The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.

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    The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

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    The ‘equilibrium’ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It’s only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.

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    The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.

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    The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

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    The greatest illusion is that mankind has limitations.

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    The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magics, it's the hardest thing to do.

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    The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.

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    The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.

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    The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.

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    The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .

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    The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.

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    The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.

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    The illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false.

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    The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

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    The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

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    The illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided.

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    The in­dividual exists only in your imagination. It is just an illusion. When the Atma is one without a sec­ond, when the Atma is everywhere, where is the individual? Only in your imagination. The Atma alone is real. Realize it through meditation.

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    The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has become a dangerous illusion-and one of the cornerstones of the corporate mystique.

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    The inspiration for my illusions comes from many places. Most often they come from my dreams, or an everyday occurrence in life.

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    The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

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    The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.

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    The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

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    The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

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    [...] the inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race [...]

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    The material world may be nothing but illusion.

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    The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

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    The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.

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    the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

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    The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

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    The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.

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    The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.

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    The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

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    The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.

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    The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.