#illusion

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

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

— Albert Einstein

#distinction #future #illusion #only #past

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. ↗

— Simone Weil

#attained #detached #great #illusions #only

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

— Rebecca West

#illusion #monologues #such #thing

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#any #blindly #follow #hallucination #illusion

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. ↗

— Manly Hall

#chaos #disillusionment #ends #leads #naturally

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#created #i #illusion #literacy #reading

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#dream #illusion #lime #right #twig

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#beautiful #best #free #illusion #moment