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Disillusion
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“In all efforts there is bound to be some disillusionment. We dream higher than we build.”
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“Miss Findlater spoke with the air of a disillusioned rake, who has sucked life's orange and found it dead sea fruit.”
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“Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in.”
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“His wife could observe his thoughts as plainly as if they were exotic goldfish swimming in a glass bowl; but she continued to regard him with the serene tolerance of the completely disillusioned.”
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“Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.”
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“Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.”
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“This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.”
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“This is then complete disillusionment in living, the complete realization that no one can believe as you do about anything ...”
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“Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!”
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“The disillusioner is seldom forgiven.”
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“It's all right to be disillusioned, but you can't be disillusioning.”
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“Life is a lie, and Love a cheat.”
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“Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.”