“Illusion is the first of all pleasures”

“All is but illusion and disaster.”

“There is some pleasure in having no pleasure.”

“Everything's fine today, that is our illusion. ”

“But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.”

“One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion”

“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.”