#illusions

Someday , Tamani told himself. Someday it'll be me. ↗

— Aprilynne Pike

#illusion

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#illusions #images #our #place #primarily

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

#feeling #illusions #live #person

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another! ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#disagreement #dreams #faith #future #hopes

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition. ↗

— Dan Flavin

#broken #composition #could #crucial #down

I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions. ↗

— David Copperfield

#anything #been #before #challenges #done

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite. ↗

— James Hillman

#behind #being #big #capacity #current

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#america #common #community #destiny #difficult

I just want to kiss you." He slid his hand up her neck, cupping the side of her face. "Do you want to kiss me? ↗

— Aprilynne Pike

#illusion

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas. ↗

— Gary Numan

#areas #associated #aware #i #illusions