154 Quotes About Disillusionment
- Author Wataru Watari
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The institution known as "school" isn't just a facility for doing classwork. It's essentially a microcosm of society, all of humanity put together in a little diorama. Bully exists in schools because war and conflict exist in the world, and school castes reflect our stratified, hierarchical society. Living in a democracy, the tyranny of the majority naturally applies at school, too. The majority -- that is to say, the people with the most friends -- are superior.
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- Author Joseph Conrad
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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more—the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort—to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires—and expires, too soon, too soon—before life itself.
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- Author Emma Cline
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But I could not fully admit it, even then. The way Suzanne's face looked as she watched him - I wanted to be with her. I thought that loving someone acted as a kind of protective measure, like they'd understand the scale and intensity of your feelings and act accordingly.
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- Author Lynda Barry
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Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.
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- Author Dorothea Lasky
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I have disillusionment of all o'clocks
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- Author Bauvard
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I lost something magical in the process of growing up – my disillusionment.
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- Author Joan Didion
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Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
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- Author Voltaire
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You are very harsh.''I have seen the world.
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- Author Nathanael West
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...all these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach writing, cartooning, engineering, to add inches to the biceps and to develop the bust
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