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Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
J.G. Priestly
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Various well-bred moralities had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, common sense stoicism all the aids whereby a man may savour, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life.


— Jean-Paul Sartre, in L'âge de raison (The Age of Reason) (1945)

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I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.

dorothy day

— On Pilgrimage (1948), p. 127

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Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.


— J. B. Priestley, "The Disillusioned", 1929; in The Balconinny, and Other Essays, 1969, p. 30.

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