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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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. – Cyril Connolly

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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. – 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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Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion. – Susan Shaughnessy

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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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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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Ive been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldnt pay for the dental work he needed. – Matthew Lesko

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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. – Karl Popper

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