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What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them. .Arthur Schopenhauer
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The thing about memories wasn't that many of them inevitably faded, but that repeated recall of the ones you remembered burnished them into shining, gorgeous liesDexter Palmer
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities..Christian Nestell Bovee
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Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.Shannon L. Alder
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What I cannot tough, remains a memory, I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can never be-Ayushee Ghoshal
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What I cannot touch, remains a memory. I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can never be.Ayushee Ghoshal
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Delusion is the seed of dreams.Lailah Gifty Akita
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.Bertrand Russell
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She was always looking for guarantees in a world of none.Crystal Woods
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I don't have to say so because people can see it from leagues away. I am ugly, shy and anachronistic, but by dint of not wanting to be those things I have pretended to be just the opposite.Unknown
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Don't think you're living when you just exist!Ahmed Mostafa
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I spoke of the tragic illusion of perpetuity, but, no, my friends, it is a comic one. The ludicrous plot in which we are all trapped. The ancient Greeks referred to plot as mythos, attributing the random drift of human affairs to some sort of unknowable but glimpsable divine motion, attempting to attach a certain grandeur to it, the delusion of meaning. But we are characters who do not exist, in a story composed by no one from nothing. Can anything be more pitiable? No wonder we all are grieving.Robert Coover
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And all our gods are not lies. They existed. All our gods, from the beginning of time, have been men with psychiatric conditions. And their delusions were so deep, they passed them on.Manu Joseph
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The distinction between a delusion and a lie is the very difference between a successful saint and a fraud.Manu Joseph
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But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.Rob Thomas
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Delusions are a vital part of my existence.Jason Krumbine
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He, the One, the bringer of all to enlightenment, had an earthy name. His name was Jimmy.Teresa Lo
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I've been at some pains to tell you about myself because among other reasons I think we should know who our enemies are. I've known people to spend their lives nursing a hatred of phantoms and they were not happy people.Cormac McCarthy
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There's a great deal of power in pretending.Suzanne Palmieri
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Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces.Stephen King