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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.

Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.

Albert Claude

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Emile M. Cioran

Freedom

Illusion

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

Perry Christie

Time

Illusion

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Noam Chomsky

Illusion

World

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

Gabriel Byrne

Illusion

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

Andre Breton

Illusion

Learning

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.