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Illusion Quotes
"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."
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Leo Tolstoy
"Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything."
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Stephen Colbert
"Delusion is important to success."
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John waters
"How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child"
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Judy Garland
"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion"
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Frank Zappa
"None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not"
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Baruch Spinoza
"The contradiction between free will and scientific determinism is just an illusion"
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Yuval Noah Harari
"A straight oar looks bent in the water."
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Michel de Montaigne
"[...] We have made the world a lie."
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Ta Nehisi Coates
"Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?"
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Groucho Marx
"What is hardest about reality is how much we have to pretend."
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Alain de Botton
"The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
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George Bernard Shaw
"No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth."
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Charles Spurgeon
"Of all the things which are no longer what they seem"
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Herman Melville
"Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick. A shadow on the wall"
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George R.R. Martin
"It is known that despite seeing indications that reality is where we exist, it is also clear that not everything here makes sense in a linear fashion with perfect logic."
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Douglas Adams
"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing"
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Haruki Murakami
"Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one"
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Haruki Murakami
"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."
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Benjamin Franklin
"Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants exactly what he is supposed to want"
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Erich Fromm
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