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Illusions

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Officious, innocent, sincere,Of every friendless name the friend.

Samuel Johnson

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Sometimes we see a cloud that’s dragonish;
A vapor sometime like a bear or lion,
A tower’d citadel, a pendant rock,
A forked mountain, or blue promontory
With trees upon ’t.

William Shakespeare

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The only freedom the gods grant us
Is this: to submit
Of our own free will to their sovereignty.
We should do just that,
Since only in the illusion of freedom
Does freedom exist.

Fernando Pessoa

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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Virginia Woolf

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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.

Sigmund Freud

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Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

Sigmund Freud

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