The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an impact on modern life.
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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