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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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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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The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. – Cyril Connolly

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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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Pray look better, Sir… those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. – Miguel de Cervantes

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

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

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