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It's pretty hard to change once you've burned away your youth and your illusions.
Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, i ...
I always used to suffer a great deal if I let myself get too close to reality since the definitive world of the everyday with its ...
Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
While we were doing it, everything seemed possible, I must say. But that is the illusion of the act. Now I remember how everything ...
In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are real ...
Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ea ...
At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search fo ...
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wreste ...
Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.
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