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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.: Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005)
Art is the illusion of spontaneity.: Japanese Proverb
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Hocus Pocus
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.: Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically gettin killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Myth of Sisyphus
...free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.: Tamora Pierce, Alanna The First Adventure
I was to learn later that in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.: Petronius Arbiter
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.: Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005)
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Results from Cole's Quotables:

What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.: Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.: Richard Bach, Illusions [1977]

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