“It was a time of beautiful brutal illusions.”
“Dawn is merely an illusion that the world is beautiful.”
“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?”
“Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.”
“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.”
“Time is an illusion.”