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 George Santayana
Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
The worship of power is an old religion.
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
