#illusions

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

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We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership. ↗

— Artur Davis

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I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

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I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. ↗

— Alan Watts

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

— Simone Weil

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The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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