#illusion

As I went over to say goodbye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#dreams

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. ↗

— George Washington

#cure #discard #error #expect #experience

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child. ↗

— Judy Garland

#dies #how #illusion #lost #strange

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#illusion #lost #novel #title

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#disillusioned #house #i #knowingly #later

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#being #better #defeat #disillusionment #elections

I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#became #disillusioned #feel #generation #i

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#live #our #problem #role #world

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#affairs #aware #destroying #doing #foreign

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#composed #experience #illusions #our #rather