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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth – then it’s far too late when they pass away.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.