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.
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Unknown
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
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T.S. Eliot
Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
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Edward Albee
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?
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Virginia Woolf
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.
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Ruth Tessler Goldstein
More Quotes By Cyril Connolly
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933]
When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode, ’ we might believe them; but were they to cry ‘if I pronounce this spell over your beer...
