„Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.“

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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„There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.“
— Haruki Murakami
„She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.“
— Terry Pratchett