#illusion

We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership. ↗

— Artur Davis

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ↗

— Voltaire

#first of all #illusion #pleasures

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. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#being #book #creation #give #human

A woman should be an illusion. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#should #woman

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#distinction #future #illusion #only #past

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion. ↗

— Guy Verhofstadt

#clearly #idea #illusion #regulated #unite

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion. ↗

— Voltaire

#fine #illusion #our #today

I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood. ↗

— Alexander Walker

#both #cinema #cinemas #course #disillusioned

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. ↗

— Alan Watts

#future #i #illusions #past #past and future