The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

Arthur Miller
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  1. But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love. - Unknown

  2. There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet. - T.S. Eliot

  3. Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen. - Edward Albee

  4. Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? - Virginia Woolf

  5. The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of us must make do with illusions. Or else -- or else we could not endure. - Ruth Tessler Goldstein

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