Illusion Quotes

"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend" "1Q84. That is the name of the new world. In this world, there are no hills, there is no rain, never at all. What you see here doesn't exist in reality. What you see here is a fantasy." "Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange" "When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you limit reality." "We look like we in love, but only on camera " "What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not" "We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real" "Time is a mind construct. It's not real" "Another world lies beyond the world of money and power. It's on the other side of that thin membrane, and it's more real than all the stuff we see on the news." "If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion." "None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free" "The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison" "An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality" "There is no way out of the imagined order. When we break down our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison" "The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world and he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true" "Resistance has no strength of its own. Ever see an ogre blow out an empty paper bag?" "No matter how absurd it may appear" "Let men see what they want to see." "The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths." "It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart, and head."