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• Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
  -- Iris Murdoch...
• Choice is an illusion. In reality, our lives are controlled by the society in which we live.
• Death is an illusion. Life is a hallucination. Taxes are objective reality.
• There is no reality except the one contained within us.
  That is why so many people live such an unreal life....
• People say I live in my own little fantasy world...
  well, at least they *know* me there! -- D.L. Roth...
• This world may be only illusion--but it's the only illusion we've got. -- Edward Abbey
• Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race.
  He brought death into the world. -- Mark Twain (1835-1910), "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilso...
• The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be
  all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them....
• To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy.
  ... and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. -- Robert A. Heinlei...