"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

Welles, Orson on isolation
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"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."

Lewis, Daniel Day on acting and actors
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"It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved."

Maugham, W. Somerset on fame
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"No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation."

Duras, Marguerite on alcohol and alcoholism
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"It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed."

Rostand, Jean on opinions   

"Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness."

Cioran, E. M. on reason
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"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."

Freud, Anna on creativity
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"He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive."

Kahn, Master on fights and fighting
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"Change is difficult but often essential to survival."

Brown, Les on change
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"Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you."

White, Stewart E. on self-confidence
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"It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work."

Shaw, George Bernard on self-confidence
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"There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self."

Seneca on self-confidence
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"Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed."

Pollock, Channing on self-confidence
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"A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity."

Long, Lazarus on self-confidence
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"The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-confidence
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"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."

Ashe, Arthur on self-confidence
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"Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk."

Gibb, Jack on self-confidence
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"Surviving well is your finest revenge."

Nito, Morgan on revenge
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"Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane."

Unknown, Source on insanity
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"You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow."

Pirandello, Luigi on reality
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"Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion."

Cronenberg, David on censorship
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"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on alcohol and alcoholism
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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."

Connolly, Cyril on illusion   

"Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared."

Nouwen, Henri on life
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"Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on illusion
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"Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on pleasure
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"Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion."

Shaughnessy, Susan on illusion   

"Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring."

Thoreau, Henry David on common sense   

"Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world."

Margolius, Hans on perception
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"Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone."

Navratilova, Martina on disability
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"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth."

Borne, Ludwig on truth
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"The most dangerous thing is illusion."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anger
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"Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth."

Daumal, Rene on science   

"The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power."

Berger, John on envy
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"There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on girls   

"Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion."

Llosa, Mario Vargas on equality   

"If you can talk brilliantly enough about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."

Kubrick, Stanley on problems   

"Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion."

Eliot, George on appearance
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"A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread."

Bernanos, Georges on poverty and the poor   

"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

Einstein, Albert on past
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