Source: Psychologie des Foules [The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind] (1895)
“Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?”
Source: A Room of One's Own
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English writer 1882–1941Related quotes
“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?”
Source: The House of Mirth
“We cannot be rid of illusions. Illusion is our natural condition. Why not accept it?”
The Deception: The Ultimate Dream (p. 81)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)
“In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need”
Source: Honest Illusions