Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do

Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

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The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do...

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do...

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you...

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you...

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find...

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find...

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over...

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over...

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that...

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that...

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of...

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of...

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

Never stop believing.. Magic is just science we don't understand.. Every original idea was considered...

Never stop believing.. Magic is just science we don't understand.. Every original idea was considered...

Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who'll work hard enough to bring...

Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who'll work hard enough to bring...

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs...

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs...

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil...

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil...

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea...

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea...

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea...

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea...

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas....

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas....

Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of...

Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of...