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The loafer believes he is enjoying life, but sooner or later he must face disillusion.
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My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. … it filled me with soul satisfying joy .

william carlos williams

— The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams (1951) [W. W. Norton & Co., 1967, ISBN 978-0811202268]

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It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

kenneth clark

— Ch. 13: Heroic Materialism

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Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. ... Let us not disillusion anyone by bringing too much reality into the dream.

claude debussy

— Unsourced variant: Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

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He had one illusion France; and one disillusion mankind, including Frenchmen, and his colleagues not least.

john maynard keynes

— On Georges Clemenceau, in Chapter III, pg.32

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The loafer believes he is enjoying life, but sooner or later he must face disillusion .


— Fausto Cercignani in: Brian Morris, Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani, Lulu Press (Raleigh, NC, USA), , 2nd ed. 2014 (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Unported License), p. 33.

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The loafer believes he is enjoying life, but sooner or later he must face disillusion .


— Fausto Cercignani in: Brian Morris, Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani, 2014, p. 33.

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It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.


— Kenneth Clark, Ch. 13: Heroic Materialism, Civilisation (1969)

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He had one illusion — France; and one disillusion — mankind, including Frenchmen.

Georges Clemenceau

— John Maynard Keynes in The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Ch. 3

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