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  • There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

    Marcel Proust (2003). “The prisoner and the fugitive”, ePenguin
  • Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

    Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.43, Ballantine Books
  • Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.

    Tom Holt (2008). “In Your Dreams”, p.91, Hachette UK
  • History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity.

    Past   Space   History  
  • While we only look at Nature it is fair to say that Autumn is the end of the year; but it is still more true that Autumn is the beginning of the year.... Autumn is the time when in fact the leaves bud. Leaves wither because winter begins; but they also wither because spring is already beginning, because new buds are being made, as tiny as percussion caps out of which the spring will crack.... It is only an optical illusion that my flowers die in autumn; for in reality they are born.

    Spring   Flower   Autumn  
  • Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.

  • The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

    Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1969, BookCaps Study Guides
  • I looked across the river to Manhattan. It was a great view. When Sadie and I had first arrived at Brooklyn House, Amos had told us that magicians tried to stay out of Manhattan. He said Manhattan had other problems--whatever that meant. And sometimes when I looked across the water, I could swear I was seeing things. Sadie laughed about it, but once I thought I saw a flying horse. Probably just the mansion's magic barriers causing optical illusions, but still, it was weird.

    Horse   Views   Rivers  
  • People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations.

    Dream   Sleep   People  
  • I've never really had a waist. Even when I was at my slimmest, my silhouette was very straight up, straight down. But I have learnt how to give myself a bit of waist by optical illusion. For this, bring on the belts.

  • The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

  • The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.

    Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.16, Vintage
  • Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

  • Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion.

  • There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.229, Harvard University Press
  • If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

  • We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an optical illusion. The moment is bleeding off the page. We live on the precipice of our perceptions. At the edge of every living instant, the world shears away like a cliff of ice into the sea of what is forgotten.

    Ice   Sea   Perception  
  • There’s no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

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