“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.”
“No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.”
“It was a time of beautiful brutal illusions.”
“What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.”
“But to find it and touch it and hold it! What relief, if only briefly, until love wears off or slips through our hands. Strange how love--the most fickle of emotions--creates the illusion of permanence right from the start, just as beauty, so fleeting and elusive, can seem so timeless and infinite to behold.”
“How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.”