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  1. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    What happiness there had been in those days! What freedom! What hope! What an abundance of illusions! She had none left now. Each new venture had cost her some of them, each of her successive conditions: as virgin, wife and mistress; she had lost them all along the course of her life, like a traveler who leaves some of his wealth at every inn along the road.
    book-quotelifeillusionsromaticism

  2. Gustave Flaubert _ Bouvard and Pecuchet

    Ils en conclurent que la syntaxe est une fantaisie et la grammaire une illusion.
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  3. Charlotte Brontë _ Shirley

    If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.
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  4. Leo Tolstoy _ The Kreutzer Sonata

    Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do {...} Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?
    book-quotemusicpsychologyillusions

  5. Norton Juster _ The Phantom Tollbooth

    if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.
    book-quoteimaginationhumorfiction

  6. Francesca Lia Block _ House of Dolls

    War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.
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  7. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
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  8. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    And when I fall in love," I began, "I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while we have our heads in the clouds with all our illusions still intact. And the purple grass will grow all around, high enough to reach our eyes.
    book-quotelovemountainreality

  9. William Golding _ Darkness Visible

    We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.
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  10. W. Somerset Maugham _ Collected Short Stories:

    ...He had few illusions, for here are some of the things that life had taught him: "Men hate those whom they have injured; men love those whom they have benefited; men naturally avoid their benefactors; men are universally actuated by self-interest; gratitude is a lovely sense of expected benefits; promises are never forgotten by those to whom they are made, usually by those who make them.
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  11. C.G. Jung _ Aion

    It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course-for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.
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  12. Orson Scott Card _ Xenocide

    Hive Queen: So many of your people are becoming Christians. Believing in the god these humans brought with them.Human: You don't believe in God?Hive Queen: The question never came up. We have always remembered how we began.Human: You evolved. We were created.Hive Queen: By a virus.Human: By a virus that God created in order to create us.Hive Queen: So you, too, are a believer.Human: I understand belief.Hive Queen: No-you desire belief.Human: I desire it enough to act as if I believed. Maybe that's what faith is.Hive Queen: Or deliberate insanity.
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