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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
Reality
Sometimes
Pain
Enjoy
Complaint
Bit
Pleasure
Must
Dashed
Allow
Instead
Pieces
Accept
Because
Without
Commend
Which
Against
Themselves
Us
Therefore
Illusions
Save
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
Seamus Heaney
Hope
You
Out
Hopes
Dashed
Maintained
Even
Started
Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!
Mary Douglas
Injustice
Disappointment
Prosperity
Promises
Increasing
Say
Perceived
Dashed
Tends
Over
Go
Hand
Hand-In-Hand
Yes
Expectations
Unfairness
Kept
I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.
Clive Sinclair
Work
Hope
World
Black
Show Off
Humour
Bitter
Hopes
See
Outgrow
Dashed
Failed
Make
Still
Off
Irony
Place
Plans
Show
Desire
I was ten years old when my first 'Vogue' cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.
Hamish Bowles
Fashion
Me
Old
First
Dashed
Ten
Vogue
Ten Years
Obsession
Call
Cover
Years
Rocks
Siren
Against
Sang
Treacherous
I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.
Jeff Buckley
Life
Music
You
Out
Ripped
Totally
Something
Dashed
Feeds
Rocks
Want
Against
Apart
Sucks
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.
Jonathan Sacks
War
Government
Freedom
History
Change
Events
Old
Revolution
Guard
Later
Hopes
Civil
Civil War
Dashed
Rather
More
Sooner
Mass
New
Protest
Replacement
Than
Often
Creates
Shows
Streets
Raised
He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in and said your family has already moved and you have to move, the boat is ready to take you out. I didn't have time to ask, even ask a question.
Kamisese Mara
Time
Family
You
Down
Out
Brown
Dashed
Take
He
Knew
Come
Ready
Said
Question
Move
Moved
Boat
Ask
Us
Next
Your
Next Thing
Even
Thing
I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes.
Michael Leunig
Sense
Hopes
Dashed
Road
Heaven
Paved
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