#illusion

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

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A woman should be an illusion. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#should #woman

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Guy Verhofstadt

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

— Voltaire

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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

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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. ↗

— Rebecca West

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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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. ↗

— Al Goldstein

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The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages. ↗

— Horace Greeley

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