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Updated: June 4, 2025
The Professor appeared to be considering the question; but in reality he was studying the exquisite delicacy of the face turned so wistfully upon him, and the lovely lines of the slim throat and rounded chin "So beautiful a creature" he was saying within himself "And must she also suffer pain and disillusion like all the rest of her unfortunate sex!" Aloud he replied.
There will be some illusion about it the first time, perhaps the second; you may come back home joyous, singing the song of adultery. "I have a lover!" but the third time you will not wish to go to him, for the disillusion will have come.
If idealism is intrenched in the very structure of human reason, empiricism represents all those energies of the external universe which, as Spinoza says, must infinitely exceed the energies of man. If meditation breeds science, wisdom comes by disillusion, even on the subject of science itself. Docility to the facts makes the sanity of science.
The sweet, faint garden smell in the English twilight: of laurels and laurestinus, of lilac, pinks, and the heavy scent of May, wall-flowers and sweet william too these, with the poignant aroma of the old childhood house, were the background of familiar loveliness against which my subsequent disillusion of the homeland set itself in such afflicting contrast.
Crispus had wished to transform her into an angel, to raise her to heights where love for Christ alone existed, and she had fallen in love with an Augustian. The very thought of that filled his heart with horror, strengthened by a feeling of disillusion and disappointment. No, no, he could not forgive her.
First and most astounding of disillusions of passing childhood, it was not a cave at all! And yet the word "disillusion" does not apply. It was, after all, the most enchanting and exciting of spots, to make one's eye shine and one's heart beat.
There is clearly on the score of health much less objection to summer garden parties for children, but these for some reason are less the vogue. As a rule parties are not enjoyed by nervous children. There is intense excitement in anticipation, and when at length the moment arrives, there is apt to be disillusion.
If they were wise, they would die at that moment if it ever comes when joy seems supreme and stable. Life can give nothing further, and it has no more hellish misery than disillusion following upon delight." "Did you ever seriously think of killing yourself?" Ida asked, gazing at him closely. "Yes.
That first bewildering, intoxicating sense of power is good while it lasts; none the less, because, in the nature of things, it is foredoomed to disillusion greater or less, according to the authenticity of the god within. Whatever the outcome for Roy, that passing exaltation eased appreciably the pang of parting from them all. And it was responsible for a happy inspiration.
So far as our meagre traditions allow us to trace the development of the two, the differences are even more fundamental. Peaceful as was the latter part of Gotama's life, the beginning was a period of struggle and disillusion.
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