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Balls to aspiration, it's a tosser's mirage.
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Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.

caitlín r. kiernan

— (24 July 2005)

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The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage, you will never quench your thirst, and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment.

meher baba

— As quoted in "An analysis of the problems presented in the use of LSD" (1967) UNODC

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All saints revile her, and all sober men Ruled by the God Apollo's golden mean In scorn of which we sailed to find her In distant regions likeliest to hold her Whom we desired above all things to know, Sister of the mirage and echo.

robert graves

— "The White Goddess," lines 1–6, from Poems and Satires (1951)

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I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

friedrich hayek

— Economic Freedom and Representative Government (1973)

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I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

friedrich hayek

— Friedrich Hayek, Economic Freedom and Representative Government (1973)

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As for those who disbelieved, their deeds are like a mirage in a desert. The thirsty one thinks it to be water until he comes up to it, he finds it to be nothing; but he finds Allah with him, Who will pay him his due.


— Sura 24:39

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