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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
Andre Maurois
Illusion
Lost
Every
Title
Novel
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.
Charles M. Schulz
Life
Home
Illusion
More
Gives
Than
Interesting
Decorate
Really
Your
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
David Cronenberg
Reality
Illusion
Confuse
Only
Tend
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
David Icke
Love
Truth
Love Is
Illusion
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Only
Infinite
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Desiderius Erasmus
Ignorance
Illusion
Live
Believe
Philosophers
Folly
Only
Misery
Protesting
Hear
Human
Deception
Now
Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that are already known. Real magic uses laws that haven't yet been discovered.
Doug Henning
Nature
Science
Impossible
Illusion
Magic
Something
Laws
Call
Known
Real
Been
Discovered
Happens
Uses
Appears
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.
Ernest Hemingway
War
Time
Great
You
People
Illusion
First
Lose
Other
Wounded
Immortality
Badly
Know
First Time
Boy
Go
Get
Happen
Then
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
Alone
Illusion
Live
Born
Charlie
Charlie Sheen
Give
Voltaire
Between
Sheen
Said
Cling
Die
Anything
In-Between
Either
Us
Who
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Georges Bernanos
Hope
Needs
Man
Illusion
Poor Man
Nothing
More
His
Than
Bread
Poor
Belly
It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
H. P. Lovecraft
Life
Best
Day
Illusion
Mind
Fears
Remove
Lost
Nothing
Society
Easy
Immortality
Accept
Content
Disciplined
Intellect
End
May
Craves
Serve
The soul is an illusion.
Harry Dean Stanton
Soul
Illusion
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy Garland
Death
Dreams
Time
Reality
Illusion
Imagination
Born
Cast
Fed
Priceless
Put
Away
You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.
Luigi Pirandello
Today
You
Reality
Illusion
Tomorrow
Too Much
Yesterday
Too
Must
Count
Feel
Since
Like
Prove
May
Much
Your
Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.
Luigi Pirandello
Today
You
Reality
Illusion
Tomorrow
Yesterday
Whatever
Believe
Touch
Seems
Like
Real
Going
There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
Malcolm Gladwell
Justice
World
Illusion
Important
Everything
Says
Ourselves
Some
Idea
Fairness
Very
Just
Happen
Psychology
Which
Us
Convince
Creates
Theory
Reason
Elemental
Things
Things Happen
The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a 'money illusion' among workers, i.e., on the belief that while, through unions and government, they will keep money wage rates from falling, they will also accept a fall in real wage rates via higher prices.
Murray Rothbard
Government
Persistence
Money
Illusion
Will
Fall
Unions
Rates
Rests
Higher
Through
Prices
Also
Accept
Real
Wage
Falling
Unemployment
Via
While
Workers
Belief
Keep
Among
Prescription
There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.
Ramana Maharshi
Illusion
Doubt
Universe
No Doubt
Whatsoever
I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.
Steve Martin
Alone
You
Man
Illusion
Think
Relationships
Easier
Circumstances
Solitary
Loner
Given
More
Casual
Had
Idea
Know
Also
Because
Person
Childhood
Romantic
Meant
Your
Raised
Pose
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
Walter Lippmann
Time
Walls
Illusion
Our
Beating
Come
Heads
Policeman
Been
Stone
Human
Stop
Against
Race
Human Race
Appointed
Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I'm just another schmuck that they're bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.
Robert Downey, Jr.
Love
Me
Illusion
Somebody
Nothing
Pleases
Out
I Love
Bored
More
Schmuck
Smashed
Like
Another
Than
Persistent
Hanging
Just
Working
Moment
Who
Set
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
Tom Stoppard
Illusion
Responsibility
Power
Subscribe
Able
Throughout
Never
House
Without
Lords
Been
Which
Ages
Prerogative
The thought of someone spending $20 to come and see me and saying, 'Oh, I prefer the record and she's completely shattered the illusion' really upsets me. It's such a big deal that people come give me their time.
Adele
Saying
Time
Me
People
Illusion
Thought
Big
Spending
See
Record
Someone
Give
Give Me
Come
Shattered
She
Deal
Big Deal
Oh
Upsets
Prefer
Really
Such A Big Deal
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
Al Goldstein
Death
Future
Illusion
Before
Our
Oblivion
Since
Fame
Swallowed
Next
Moment
As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.
Alan Moore
Illusion
Will
Free
Long
Free Will
Important
Mad
See
Going
Just
Stop
As Far As
Far
Us
Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.
Alan Moore
World
School
Illusion
Thought
Must
Able
Maintain
Until
Cleverest
Boy
Got
Up
Grammar
Grammar School
Growing
Growing Up
Fashion is the most beautiful illusion you can have.
Alessandro Michele
Beautiful
Fashion
You
Most Beautiful
Illusion
Most
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