I see the real world, Nancy. But it doesn’t seem real to me.- How does it seem?- It seems like an illusion that nobody notices.

That’s how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be...

Silent. So it should be. You have no place in this world, Luthiel. And there is no other.’ Zalos reached out and lifted a few strands of her hair. ‘Bright songs and the magic of...

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.

In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love, not the love with which so many stories end – the love of...

I used to love lulling, running water – a sound so infrequent in cityscapes. Its loss always made me feel lonely when I lived amongst concrete.

For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; as though there were no foundations for anything or as though it...

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.

Like the body craves oxygen, the mind is desperate for certainty. It believes that without a safe foothold on reality, it will die.But the fascinating thing is that the illusion of certainty is exactly the...

The first stage of ignorance is illusion, due to lack of exposure to reality. The second stage of ignorance is delusion, or the refusal to acknowledge reality. The third stage of ignorance is the rejection...

Science tells me time is an illusion.My heart tells me time must exist.My mind tells me I’ll never understand time.

All order, I’ve come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.

..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.

There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and...

Every culture that’s ever existed has operated under the illusion that it understood 95% of reality and that the other 5% would be delivered in the next 18 months, and from Egypt forward they’ve been...

It is just an illusion of freedom. We are, perhaps, as free as a railway carriage.

The distinction between past, present and future is an illusion, but a very persistent one.

If you are a magician then you can always do a lot more magic than you think you can.

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

illusion” of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory activity. For the most part, their desires are not too strong, they are...

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a man’s soul with the larger sweep of the world’s forces –a movement towards...

To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation of memory or the accumulation of knowledge, but the capacity to think clearly and sanely...

Magic is not what magicians can do, but what they can’t do.

Everything in the past is memory and everything in the future is imagination. Those’re both illusions – memories are unreliable and we just speculate about the future. The only thing that’s completely real is this...

Time is not an illusion. It’s tricky and elusive.

Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom, but garnered none of the benefits of it.

Life isn’t all perpetual bliss, nor is it one woeful weeping session. But you can concentrate so hard on noticing moments of one or the other that either a bright outlook or dim expectations becomes...

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Could there ever be a wise man without the wisdom or life or without the death of illusion?

There’s a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.

You went from my life right into my dreams,i can hardly tell,If i’m cursed or blessed ;I am sure things aren’t always as they seem,but i drift away,mesmerized, possessed.Memories i have uncertain and fragile,Is what...

Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

Warped and bigoted with preconceived illusions of justice, freedom, and consistency, they cast off the old lore and the old way with the old beliefs; nor ever stopped to think that the lore and those...

What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.

Myth, mist, and mystery all add to the illusion of love. If you need me I’ll be by the fog machine wearing a tunic and writing an epic poem in Greek.

You are deluded if you think that the world around you is a physical construct separate from your own mind.

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

No more lies and speeches of delusions out of the reality of our existence

Crime does not pay … if you get caught.

We live beneath many layers. Some are for our protection, and some are for our control.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

The whole thing’s illusion, [Jacob], and there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s what people want from us. It’s what they expect.

A bad magician never gets the good props.

Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive excursions, in their evocation of dreams, mysterious places and states of mind, in...

Truth starts with a sense.

For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was – a chaos of anarchic and purposeless forces – and he needed days of repose to see...

Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.

How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied–or, for that matter, awarded–because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends...