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Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a f

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith. – Harry A. Overstreet

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Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people. – Kurt Vonnegut

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Illusion

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. – Yasutani Roshi

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Illusion

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. – Bertrand Russell

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Illusion

We always think every other mans job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks. – Eden Phillpotts

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Illusion

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Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch. – G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, “The Glory of Grey”

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Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. – Tony Blair

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