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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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The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. – Cyril Connolly

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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. – Cyril Connolly

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Imagination
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It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. – Cyril Connolly

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The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life. – Sigmund Freud

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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Platos cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and dont know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? – Desiderius Erasmus

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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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Illusion

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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Illusion

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