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“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

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“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”

Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

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“Illusion is the first of the pleasures”

Voltaire quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of all French authors, 1694-1778)

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“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.”

Sigmund Freud quotes (Austrian neurologist and Founder of psychoanalysis. (father of prominent children's psychoanalyst Anna Freud), 1856-1939)

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“It is our illusions that create the world”

Didier Cauwelaert quotes

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“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.”

Arnold Newman quotes

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“It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.”

Patrick Henry quotes (American Lawyer, patriot, and orator, symbol of the American struggle for liberty, 1736-1799)

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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 quotes (American Writer, Thinker and Interpreter of Zen Buddhism, 1915-1973)

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“We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy”

Cyril Connolly quotes (English critic and editor, 1903-1974)

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“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.”

Thomas More quotes (English Humanist, Statesman and Chancellor of England, 1477-1535)

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