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Illusion Quotes
For the gap between what seems true and what is.
Looking back, youth often seems carefree only to those who no longer have it - a trick of memory as much as anything real. This collection sits alongside our Life quotes on perception and time.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your eyes are far apart, bringing the brow shape closer together gives the illusion of shorter distance between the eyes.
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I am under no illusion that amending the Voting Rights Act in Congress will be easy, but with bipartisan calls for legislation to address it, I'm confident we are moving in the right direction.
- Nov 07, 2020
The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
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Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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- Nov 07, 2020