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• Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

  David I. Rozenberg

  Reality, Censorship, Filmmaker

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• Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

  Brad Bird

  Creating, Animation, Ifs

  "The 77th Annual Academy Awards". Music, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

  Joseph Conrad

  Ironic, Dull, Safe

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.210, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

  Timothy Zahn

  Luck, Ignorant, Foolish

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• For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.

  George Eliot

  Life, Past, Reality

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.75

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• In prison, illusions can offer comfort.

  Nelson Mandela

  Comfort, Prison, Offers

  Nelson Mandela (2009). “Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2: 1962-1994”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe...Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.

  Albert Einstein

  Reality, Perception, Remember

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• Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Feelings, Literature

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• Love can be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

  Javan

  Sad, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

  Talib Kweli

  Roles, World, Problem

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• Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Life, Home, Giving

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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.

  Marguerite Young

  Leadership, Insane, Hallucinations

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• ...Every single one of us goes through life depending on and bound by our individual knowledge and awareness. And we call it reality. However, both knowledge and awareness are equivocal. One's reality might be another's illusion. We all live inside our own fantasies, don't you think?

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Reality, Thinking, Might

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• Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call “reality”. However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions?

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Reality, Thinking, Assumption

  "Naruto: Shippūden". TV Series, 2007 - 2017.

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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.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Real, Sacrifice, Equality

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• The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Life, Science, Views

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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• I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

  Perry Christie

  Pace, Bowlers, Mediums

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• We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

  W. H. Auden

  Change, Religion, Growth

  Wystan Hugh Auden (2011). “The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue”, p.105, Princeton University Press

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• Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

  Douglas Adams

  Time, Philosophy, Humorous

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

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• A mind now clouded by the illusions of the innate darkness of life is like a tarnished mirror, but when polished, it is sure to become like a clear mirror, reflecting the essential nature of phenomena and the true aspect of reality. Arouse deep faith, and diligently polish your mirror day and night. How should you polish it? Only by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo

  Nichiren

  Night, Reality, Mirrors

  Nichiren (2003). “The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin”

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• One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

  Salvador Dali

  Dream, Reality, One Day

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• Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.

  Bill Hicks

  Reality, Perception, Might

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  We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

  Judy Garland

  Dream, Reality, Imagination

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• There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

  Marcel Proust

  Space, Optical Illusions, Wells

  Marcel Proust (2003). “The prisoner and the fugitive”, ePenguin

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• It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Forever, Slaughterhouse Five, Gone

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.9, Infobase Publishing

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