#illusion

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. ↗

— Angela Carter

#fools #illusion #whole #world #yet

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. ↗

— Albert Claude

#achieve #action #asleep #awake #cells

In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want. ↗

— David Copperfield

#get #i #illusion #level #magic

That was why, later on, he began to lose interest in photography: first when colour took over, then when it became plain that the old magic of light-sensitive emulsions was waning, that to the rising generation the enchantment lay in a techne of images without substance, images that could flash through the ether without residing anywhere, that could be sucked into a machine and emerge from it doctored, untrue. He gave up recording the world in photographs then, and transferred his energies to saving the past. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#illusion #photography #age

It was days like this when I felt it more than ever: I wasn’t a real human. ↗

— Melanie Cusick-Jones

#depression #disillusioned #anger

Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief from labour. ↗

— J.M. Bernstein

#culture #illusion #industry #art

Beauty that pleases the eye is a frail, fleeting illusion. But that beauty capable of pleasing the heart can endure endlessly. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#attractiveness #beauty #enduring #illusion #richelle

You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. ↗

— Richard Bach

#change

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#death

Could there ever be a wise man without the wisdom or life or without the death of illusion? ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#illusion #life #death