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  • "Tris," he says sternly, "I don't know what delusion you're operating under, but this is all new to me, too."†   (source)
  • But I never deluded myself as to the real nature of my playmates.†   (source)
  • He was deluded by obsession; his logic and reasoning became corrupted, irrational, and increasingly dangerous.†   (source)
  • A delusion, she saw.†   (source)
  • Langdon had never harbored delusions that a woman like Vittoria Vetra could have been happy living with him on a college campus, but their encounter in Rome had unlocked in him a longing he never imagined he could feel.†   (source)
  • First the delusions start, then animal instincts begin to overpower the human ones.†   (source)
  • "You might be laboring under the delusion that the entire wizarding world is impressed with you," Snape went on, so quietly that no one else could hear him (Harry continued to pound his scarab beetles, even though he had already reduced them to a very fine powder), "but I don't care how many times your picture appears in the papers.†   (source)
  • No more getting my hopes up, no more self-delusion, and no more problem-solving.†   (source)
  • But she didn't say it, that they had been too young, that they had not seen clearly, that they had allowed the forest and the beach to sweep them up, that all of it had been delusion all along, that she had not been who she was.†   (source)
  • The cheers from across the gym were like volleys of arrows piercing our grand delusion.†   (source)
  • So while Granmère is definitely delusional, it's not because she THINKS she's an aristocrat; she really IS one.†   (source)
  • These are not the acts of someone who doesn't know what he's doing-they're the hallmarks of a rational, angry-perhaps suffering, but certainly not delusional-young man.'†   (source)
  • The Rev. Mr. Merrill countered humbly with Kierkegaard: "What no person has a right to is to delude others into the belief that faith is something of no great significance, or that it is an easy matter, whereas it is the greatest and most difficult of all things."†   (source)
  • I've only had one guy come close to provoking a physical or emotional response from me once, and that turned out to be a self-induced delusion.†   (source)
  • The irony was, now that delusions and paranoia were starting to get the best of him, it was true—he wasn't safe at home, not with all those guns around.†   (source)
  • Beric Dondarrion, some young lordling with delusions of valor.†   (source)
  • I waited for him to take it up, to unravel once again his tale of plotting statesmen and deluded public, his great joke, his private toe hold on the world.†   (source)
  • Now he understood how conceited a delusion this was.†   (source)
  • Still, my mother persevered, awash in the delusion that I had kept my popularity secret from her all these years.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the patients were in such a high state of agitation during these delusions that they had to be given a sedative or strapped to their beds.†   (source)
  • Ringer's delusion will drive her to seek shelter with the very things she was tasked to destroy.†   (source)
  • By the time of the delusion, they had three hundred acres, and their children were settled in separate homesteads within the same estate.†   (source)
  • Arc you delusional?†   (source)
  • You're deluding yourself.†   (source)
  • I was deluded, and I knew it.†   (source)
  • We'll have to wait and see if these grand illusions (or delusions!)†   (source)
  • The very next day it felt like a dream, or a delusion.†   (source)
  • Are you any less deluded?†   (source)
  • "You're delusional," I say, then turn to the others.†   (source)
  • To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.†   (source)
  • Yes, it was a solution: Give up her so-called ridiculous, fantastical delusions and enter wholeheartedly into the world around her.†   (source)
  • But, if I understand what you're saying, the consequences of our selfishness are part of the process that brings us to the end of our delusions, and helps us find you.†   (source)
  • Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.†   (source)
  • He was delusional, paranoid, convinced a dark, evil force was coming from the heavens to take him.†   (source)
  • At best Lorren would think I was delusional, at worst, a foolish child.†   (source)
  • Only incorrigible optimists had still cherished the delusion that Poland's determined stance would deter Hitler at the last moment.†   (source)
  • It's your fault that he's deluded himself into thinking I'm going to prom with him.†   (source)
  • Either that or it's about an insane governess who fantasizes that a ghost is taking over the children in her care, and in her delusion literally smothers them with protectiveness.†   (source)
  • Except most of us don't delude ourselves that we ever had great destinies.†   (source)
  • Em was as delusional as Link, but not as harmless.†   (source)
  • Happily, most delusions were harmless.†   (source)
  • All minds except Father's, that is, who frequently takes the name of Brother Fowles in vain, feeling certain now that all the stones in his path were laid by this deluded purveyor of Christian malpractice.†   (source)
  • It is not easy, for example, to surgically remove a delusion.†   (source)
  • Deluded with larger concerns, I made no note of it.†   (source)
  • Lucian was never the sort of man who would have deluded himself.†   (source)
  • Pentecostal Christians think so, but they are deluding themselves.†   (source)
  • In my deluded solitude, I sat waiting for my son in the armchair of my library, my eyes glued to the doorsill, calling to him with my mind, as I used to call for Clara.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure why Phillip chose the name he did for my first daughter, which later in his delusional thinking began to symbolize the powerful spirit forces that controlled his mind.†   (source)
  • She might even be deluded into thinking that he trusted her.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was because Yetta heard so many of the rich people grumbling as they left: "A little too radical for my tastes, frankly," and "Isn't it appalling, how those socialists are deluding those poor little girls?"†   (source)
  • Then she touched him with such freedom that he suffered a delusion after the initial shudder, and he felt more fear than pleasure.†   (source)
  • But Ruth believed LuLing's delusions were always rooted in a deeper reason.†   (source)
  • Unless I was delusional.†   (source)
  • I felt myself relax a bit, but I wasn't suffering under any delusion that we were about to start braiding friendship bracelets for each other.†   (source)
  • Even so, if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night, you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display, in the face of everything, at least in some degree a 'dignity' worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that, my father.†   (source)
  • There was no delusion, nothing foolish or fanciful about the way Pilgrim had assessed the horrors that had befallen him.†   (source)
  • —that I can't delude myself about loving someone else.†   (source)
  • I'd cast one circle with my friends a month ago as a little experiment to see if I really had an affinity for the elements, or if I'd been delusional.†   (source)
  • Charcot believed that these delusions sprung from a woman's uterus—hystera in Greek.†   (source)
  • My faceless neighbor spoke up: "Don't be deluded.†   (source)
  • The chap's obviously deluded.†   (source)
  • By "simple," the diagnosticians meant that Andrews suffered no delusions, no false perceptions, no hallucinations, but the primary illness of separation of thinking from feeling.†   (source)
  • Francisco was the most deluded of all.†   (source)
  • There were puddles, mud, and an inviting warmth that deluded us.†   (source)
  • The words were spoken with something of the old teasing intonation that had once deluded Lydia Sessions into the faith that she held a relation of some intimacy to this man.†   (source)
  • Why delude yourself?†   (source)
  • Relieving you of your delusions.†   (source)
  • Hey, it's fine with me if you want to delude yourself.†   (source)
  • There was "no believing these poor deluded wretches," wrote Colonel Charles Stuart, summing up what most British officers felt.†   (source)
  • Was it simply the hysteria of a man who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?†   (source)
  • We became curious about the real Children's Crusade, so O'Hare looked it up in a book he had, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay, LL.†   (source)
  • You think me deluded.†   (source)
  • We don't indulge ourselves in cheap and easy delusions, Sims.†   (source)
  • He tried to remember all the soldiers, and he resurrected images of all the elderly people he had known when a child — all the aunts, uncles, neighbors, parents and grandparents, his own and everyone else's, and all the pathetic, deluded shopkeepers who opened their small, dusty stores at dawn and worked in them foolishly until midnight.†   (source)
  • But any guy who actually believed a woman always meant exactly what she said was deep in dangerous delusion.†   (source)
  • Other than being vain, obnoxious, and subject to romantic delusions, she's all right.†   (source)
  • I do not delude myself that we can restrict David's movements or activities, but we should at least collaborate.†   (source)
  • He hated every smug, deluded pore in their bodies.†   (source)
  • That is how delusional Lee Harvey Oswald's world has become.†   (source)
  • His eyes were wild, jagged on homemade Zeus, that wonderful chemical that made gods out of men, with all the power and insanity that went with delusions of immortality.†   (source)
  • And if she was right, their problems weren't as simple as a case of the delusional novelist being chased by black bats.†   (source)
  • Let Nelly have her delusions.†   (source)
  • Never thinking beyond my next tutoring session, I'd been caught up in my own delusions of finding my lost memories.†   (source)
  • She's delusional.†   (source)
  • Why should we bust our asses all day, chopping wood, hauling water, doing whatever it takes to keep everyone alive, just to let some delusional drug addict walk all over us?†   (source)
  • Am I crazy, or is she completely deluded?†   (source)
  • At thirteen I was tall and large boned, with delusions of beauty and romance.†   (source)
  • I thought of lecturing her on the respect due one's bedmate in our society, but I no longer deluded myself that I either knew the society or where I fitted into it.†   (source)
  • How many other old men in Paris in their senile delusions may mention Le Coeur du Soldat-and you?†   (source)
  • I hadn't gone delusional.†   (source)
  • Felicia's delusions commence suddenly, frequently after heavy rains.†   (source)
  • He never believed that it was not a delusion, that it had not arisen from his love, his loneliness, and every canvas he had ever seen of the Virgin and Child.†   (source)
  • For you have been deluded by Saruman.†   (source)
  • Without him, though, sharing the cabin in the serenity of the redwood trees, fishing at the river, talking over a crackling fire, or anything that might resemble an ordinary family life was a complete delusion.†   (source)
  • You suffer from the popular delusion of believing that things can be understood.†   (source)
  • "When I heard the language of men uttered by my mare," continued Aravis, "I said to myself, the fear of death has disordered my reason and subjected me to delusions.†   (source)
  • Delusions of glory pushed it to seek death in the wizard's service.†   (source)
  • A reporter and columnist on the business desk, Shavers was as pompous and as awkward at small talk as he thought he was charming; however, he was benign in his self-delusion and touching in his mistaken conviction that he was a spellbinding raconteur.†   (source)
  • He's more delusional than I am.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: You're deluded ....Martha, you're deluded.†   (source)
  • In order to do that, we'd have to break down and talk about things that were more significant than font size in online newspapers and his fevered delusions about his time studying telekinesis with a group of monks in a Himalayan ice cave.†   (source)
  • But when too much jealousy infects politics, people are easily deceived by delusional appearances.†   (source)
  • More than a few Union soldiers drew a similar distinction between leaders and followers in the South, between an arrogant "aristocracy" and the deluded common people.†   (source)
  • Oh, weren't human beings self-deluding!†   (source)
  • But that was the only delusional thing about the situation—hoping I wasn't here.†   (source)
  • Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing; intimations of suicide, forgoing of exercise, loss of mirth, hints of claustrophobia not to say delusions of imprisonment; invocations of camels, chameleons, capons, whales, weasels, hawks, handsaws-riddles, quibbles and evasions; amnesia, paranoia, myopia; day-dreaming, hallucinations; stabbing his elders, abusing his parents, insulting his lover, and appearing hatless in public-knock-kneed, droopstockinged and sighing like a love-sick schoolboy, which at his age is coming on a bit strong.†   (source)
  • I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.†   (source)
  • Liz wanted to weep at the crabbed delusion of their dreams.†   (source)
  • And with the end of the Holy Roman Empire, the fountainhead of Thurn and Taxis legitimacy is lost forever among the other splendid delusions.†   (source)
  • It had been discarded after long years of service, only to be resuscitated by a lanky, hollow-eyed ex-R. A. F. pilot who had delusions about starting his own airline in the Canadian North.†   (source)
  • We were superbly above him and the comedy gave us a delusion of high self-respect.†   (source)
  • All of these evening sojourners at the Hunnicutts', I now realize, must have been in the ad game or Wall Street or some other hollow profession, but then I remained unshaken in my delusion.†   (source)
  • He is deluded!†   (source)
  • I was protective towards him and towards his stylishness, his exaggerations, his delusions.†   (source)
  • Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.†   (source)
  • They have deluded themselves into believing that lights, water, maids, telephone, dining-room service, and transportation will all come back in a day or two.†   (source)
  • It's true that a drinker numbs his senses, it's true that he briefly escapes and rests, but he'll return from the delusion, finds everything to be unchanged, has not become wiser, has gathered no enlightenment,—has not risen several steps.†   (source)
  • A curious delusion—as if adding zeros could produce a sum.†   (source)
  • Since Bernie and I entertained delusions that we would somehow save the world, or at least a small portion of it, the idea of our own island, free from administrative supervision, appealed to us very much.†   (source)
  • He well knows what snares are spread about his path, from personal animosity ....and possibly from popular delusion.†   (source)
  • It's all been delusions...hallucinations...everything.†   (source)
  • If art was no more than a frustrated outflinging of desire, if religion was no more than self-delusion, what good was life?†   (source)
  • He was angry with himself for his self-delusion and weakness; she was flattered but puzzled as to why he had sought her out, since he hardly spoke now he had got her into the car and was driving aimlessly around the town.†   (source)
  • If you had any delusions about having power, I'd let them go now.†   (source)
  • Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion.†   (source)
  • These delusional episodes are not uncommon when they relate to traumatic memories.†   (source)
  • I can't fly airplanes if my instructor thinks I'm delusional.†   (source)
  • You kids are supposed to be geniuses, not idiotic ...delusional rebels.†   (source)
  • I guess ....well, I guess I deluded myself into thinking you wanted me to.†   (source)
  • "I don't know where you get this delusion that I'm useless, but that's what it is," I snap.†   (source)
  • The cabbie's question punctured my fantasy, letting all the colors run out of my lovely delusions.†   (source)
  • But it was a thrill to be deluded in such a high-quality way.†   (source)
  • Laura could be suffering from delusions.†   (source)
  • Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude.†   (source)
  • Whereas no one here has ever had the faintest cause for such delusions.†   (source)
  • Peter is far from delusional, Dr. Abaddon.†   (source)
  • 'Not such a deluded show-off any more, eh?†   (source)
  • Maybe I shouldn't have listened to Boggs, because he might have been in some delusional death state.†   (source)
  • Clearly you are delusional or —I don't know.†   (source)
  • I'm not delusional; I know he dated other people before he met me.†   (source)
  • It's a chilling moment that offers a glimmer of the delusion he lives with.†   (source)
  • That's exactly the kind of garbage I expect a delusional Stiff to say.†   (source)
  • I know it only fed Phillip's delusions that he was somehow above the law.†   (source)
  • They're probably paranoid and delusional.†   (source)
  • Some people will go to any lengths to delude themselves.†   (source)
  • How Tyler could be so delusional, I couldn't imagine.†   (source)
  • It was a —shared delusion," I've come to learn.†   (source)
  • The delusions from which she suffers are well entrenched.†   (source)
  • What delusion was I under that I thought I could outwit him?†   (source)
  • Nathaniel was rambling in a delusional, menacing way.†   (source)
  • I was getting used to the mental delusion.†   (source)
  • He said you thought you were pregnant, but it was just a delusion.†   (source)
  • She also said some things that were — well, she's clearly suffering from delusions.†   (source)
  • Self-deluding heroics always get in the way and screw things up.†   (source)
  • Lord Stark had probably had his delusions as well.†   (source)
  • George wanted it both ways, and Cicely deluded herself into thinking she wanted that, too.†   (source)
  • "He was just a deluded old lunatic, after all," I murmured to myself.†   (source)
  • And I let people on the outside hold their delusions, too.†   (source)
  • Only the stupid and the delusional are not.†   (source)
  • It is impossible not to prove that this whole letter is not a similar delusion to that of the fly.†   (source)
  • And if you look in the dictionary under 'delusional megalomaniac,' you'll see your picture.†   (source)
  • Richter, Cooper, Bob, and a dozen other faculty members were released from their delusional state.†   (source)
  • Asha had loved her father, but she did not delude herself.†   (source)
  • This is her accomplishment these days: deluding the tutor.†   (source)
  • Sometimes a Senate protects the people from their own errors and delusions.†   (source)
  • The Shaper's lies, the hero's self-delusion, now this: the idea of a queen!†   (source)
  • Is her mind betraying her, cultivating delusion like a hothouse orchid?†   (source)
  • She was hallucinating, and she couldn't stop the waves of delusion anymore.†   (source)
  • ...but I don't want to encourage you in this weird delusion of yours.†   (source)
  • Maybe he was delusional—or maybe tonight had been too much for him.†   (source)
  • I don't delude myself that it shall go smoothly.†   (source)
  • Small wonder I disregarded the sensation as another delusion.†   (source)
  • I am grateful for the extended stay within your lands, but this boy is delusional.†   (source)
  • "Now," Mrs. Delusional says, "look at the person sitting next to you."†   (source)
  • Do not delude yourself into pretending this is a real date.†   (source)
  • By the time I got home from school, he'd be full-on delusional.†   (source)
  • Then there should be no reason to go forward under any delusions.†   (source)
  • That is a delusion of those whose emotions are superficial.†   (source)
  • And don't delude yourself, either, Mr Original.†   (source)
  • The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion.†   (source)
  • But I see no evidence whatsoever that she is schizophrenic or suffering from paranoid delusions.†   (source)
  • When Edward's voice came back to me now, it was not the perfect imitation of my delusions.†   (source)
  • Let not our posterity be deluded with fictions under the pretense of poetical or graphical license.†   (source)
  • I thought it was a turning point, but maybe I was just deluding myself again.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.†   (source)
  • He's been suffering from delusions, they informed us, and the delusions seem to be getting worse.†   (source)
  • He did not sound messianic—just delusional.†   (source)
  • My first thought was that she was young and deluded.†   (source)
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