"We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane."

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Source : "For one day only, I'm a Lib Dem". www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2005.

Tariq Ali

#Sacred Quotes #World Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.”
“People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.”
“Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.”
“A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.”
“In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.”
“What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.”

Source : Georg Baselitz, Norman Rosenthal (2007). “Baselitz”, Royal Academy of Art
“Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.”
“Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.”

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