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Quote by Cyril Connolly
We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and e

We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. – Cyril Connolly

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If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are – like fishes not meant to swim. – Cyril Connolly

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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. – Cyril Connolly

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

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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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Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion. – Susan Shaughnessy

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