"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead."

-- Sigmund Freud

#Pain Quotes #Illusion Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective mood, but to speak from the imagination of the poet to the imagination of the reader.”
“It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared.”

Source : Elizabeth Hand (2013). “Generation Loss”, p.11, Hachette UK
“To love is to live on the precipice.”
“When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.”
“My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.”
“The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.”
“They want to beat the Don Dadda. It means, 'The Man.'”
“The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.”

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