“Dawn is merely an illusion that the world is beautiful.”

“Days are only beautiful early in the morning. I should have remembered that. Dawn is merely an illusion that the world is beautiful. When the world opens its eyes, reality reasserts itself, and you're back with the same old shit.”

“Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.”

“How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?”

“Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.”

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”