Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. – E. R. Beadle

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For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a mans soul with the larger sweep of the worlds forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. – George Eliot

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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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A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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