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Quote by George Eliot
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of

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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The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. – George Eliot

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Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that were so fond of it. – George Eliot

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What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death. – William Blake

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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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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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Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith. – Harry A. Overstreet

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More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure. – Albert Camus

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While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them. – Emile Durkheim

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