#illu

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#fantasy world #find #great #illusion #life

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#become #illusion #misconception #nuclear #nuclear age

From its brilliancy everything is illuminated. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#everything #illuminated

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#first #his #illusion #man #sweetheart

Speechless and very nearly panting, she fell back against the wall with a thump, knowing that if she lived to be ninety, she would still carry the searing mark of that kiss on her soul. "At last," he murmured. "A way to shut you up." Christovao Santos (Chris), Sanctuary ↗

— Sharon K. Garner

#children-s-book-illustrators #farming-in-brazil #mercenaries #romance #romantic-suspense

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#dealing #generalities #history #illusions #impossible

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. ↗

— Arnold Newman

#illusion #know #our #own #photography

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#father #illusion #love #matches #mother

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#advertising #conceal #i #illustrate #manufacturers

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#illuminates #important #obscures #personification #political