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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 civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven. – Cyril Connolly

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Civilization
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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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Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts. – Gutzkow

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It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. – John Keats

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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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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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With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour. – Theodore Gericault

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Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural. – Alexander Graham Bell

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Light is good from whatever lamp it shines. – Author Unknown

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With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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