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  • But I never deluded myself as to the real nature of my playmates.†   (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)
  • He was deluded by obsession; his logic and reasoning became corrupted, irrational, and increasingly dangerous.†   (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)
  • "Tris," he says sternly, "I don't know what delusion you're operating under, but this is all new to me, too."†   (source)
  • A delusion, she saw.†   (source)
  • The cheers from across the gym were like volleys of arrows piercing our grand delusion.†   (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)
  • Ringer's delusion will drive her to seek shelter with the very things she was tasked to destroy.†   (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)
  • Yes, it was a solution: Give up her so-called ridiculous, fantastical delusions and enter wholeheartedly into the world around her.†   (source)
  • No more getting my hopes up, no more self-delusion, and no more problem-solving.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Still, my mother persevered, awash in the delusion that I had kept my popularity secret from her all these years.†   (source)
  • Beric Dondarrion, some young lordling with delusions of valor.†   (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)
  • We'll have to wait and see if these grand illusions (or delusions!†   (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)
  • I was deluded, and I knew it.†   (source)
  • The very next day it felt like a dream, or a delusion.†   (source)
  • You're deluding yourself.†   (source)
  • So while Grandm"re is definitely delusional, it's not because she THINKS she's an aristocrat; she really IS one.†   (source)
  • Never thinking beyond my next tutoring session, I'd been caught up in my own delusions of finding my lost memories.†   (source)
  • To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.†   (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)
  • But Ruth believed LuLing's delusions were always rooted in a deeper reason.†   (source)
  • "You're delusional," I say, then turn to the others.†   (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)
  • It's your fault that he's deluded himself into thinking I'm going to prom with him.†   (source)
  • Happily, most delusions were harmless.†   (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)
  • You mean a delusional ex-emperor.†   (source)
  • Pentecostal Christians think so, but they are deluding themselves.†   (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)
  • Lucian was never the sort of man who would have deluded himself.†   (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)
  • Only incorrigible optimists had still cherished the delusion that Poland's determined stance would deter Hitler at the last moment.†   (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)
  • At best Lorren would think I was delusional, at worst, a foolish child.†   (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)
  • He was delusional, paranoid, convinced a dark, evil force was coming from the heavens to take him.†   (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)
  • It is not easy, for example, to surgically remove a delusion.†   (source)
  • There were puddles, mud, and an inviting warmth that deluded us.†   (source)
  • But any guy who actually believed a woman always meant exactly what she said was deep in dangerous delusion.†   (source)
  • Delusional for even bringing it up ….†   (source)
  • She might even be deluded into thinking that he trusted her.†   (source)
  • Unless I was delusional.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • —that I can't delude myself about loving someone else.†   (source)
  • She's delusional.†   (source)
  • Why delude yourself?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Francisco was the most deluded of all.†   (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)
  • We don't indulge ourselves in cheap and easy delusions, Sims.†   (source)
  • Other than being vain, obnoxious, and subject to romantic delusions, she's all right.†   (source)
  • Relieving you of your delusions.†   (source)
  • He's more delusional than I am.†   (source)
  • Hey, it's fine with me if you want to delude yourself.†   (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)
  • He hated every smug, deluded pore in their bodies.†   (source)
  • Deluded with larger concerns, I made no note of it.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Em was as delusional as Link, but not as harmless.†   (source)
  • Let Nelly have her delusions.†   (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)
  • "The chap's obviously deluded."†   (source)
  • Charcot believed that these delusions sprung from a woman's uterus—hystera in Greek.†   (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)
  • He wasn't delusional.†   (source)
  • "Except most of us don't delude ourselves that we ever had great destinies."†   (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)
  • There was "no believing these poor deluded wretches," wrote Colonel Charles Stuart, summing up what most British officers felt.†   (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)
  • How many other old men in Paris in their senile delusions may mention Le Coeur du Soldat-and you?†   (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)
  • There was no delusion, nothing foolish or fanciful about the way Pilgrim had assessed the horrors that had befallen him.†   (source)
  • Felicia's delusions commence suddenly, frequently after heavy rains.†   (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)
  • At thirteen I was tall and large boned, with delusions of beauty and romance.†   (source)
  • You think me deluded.†   (source)
  • Max did not delude himself that he could track Cooper or penetrate his illusions, but his ring would warn him if the possessed man was nearby.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • That is how delusional Lee Harvey Oswald's world has become.†   (source)
  • You suffer from the popular delusion of believing that things can be understood.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: You're deluded ….†   (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)
  • For you have been deluded by Saruman.†   (source)
  • I hadn't gone delusional.†   (source)
  • Am I crazy, or is she completely deluded?†   (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)
  • 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 when too much jealousy infects politics, people are easily deceived by delusional appearances.†   (source)
  • Delusions of glory pushed it to seek death in the wizard's service.†   (source)
  • But that was the only delusional thing about the situation—hoping I wasn't here.†   (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)
  • 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…†   (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)
  • We were superbly above him and the comedy gave us a delusion of high self-respect.†   (source)
  • Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.†   (source)
  • He is deluded!†   (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)
  • I was protective towards him and towards his stylishness, his exaggerations, his delusions.†   (source)
  • A curious delusion—as if adding zeros could produce a sum.†   (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)
  • Liz wanted to weep at the crabbed delusion of their dreams.†   (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)
  • Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion.†   (source)
  • You kids are supposed to be geniuses, not idiotic …. delusional rebels.†   (source)
  • These delusional episodes are not uncommon when they relate to traumatic memories.†   (source)
  • "I don't know where you get this delusion that I'm useless, but that's what it is," I snap.†   (source)
  • If you had any delusions about having power, I'd let them go now.†   (source)
  • I guess …. well, I guess I deluded myself into thinking you wanted me to.†   (source)
  • They're probably paranoid and delusional.†   (source)
  • I was getting used to the mental delusion.†   (source)
  • Clearly you are delusional or —I don't know."†   (source)
  • Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude.†   (source)
  • I'm not delusional; I know he dated other people before he met me.†   (source)
  • That's exactly the kind of garbage I expect a delusional Stiff to say.†   (source)
  • It's a chilling moment that offers a glimmer of the delusion he lives with.†   (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)
  • The cabbie's question punctured my fantasy, letting all the colors run out of my lovely delusions.†   (source)
  • It was a —shared delusion," I've come to learn.†   (source)
  • Maybe I shouldn't have listened to Boggs, because he might have been in some delusional death state.†   (source)
  • This delusion is a kind of prison for us ….†   (source)
  • The delusions from which she suffers are well entrenched.†   (source)
  • Some people will go to any lengths to delude themselves.†   (source)
  • How Tyler could be so delusional, I couldn't imagine.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel was rambling in a delusional, menacing way.†   (source)
  • She also said some things that were — well, she's clearly suffering from delusions."†   (source)
  • I know it only fed Phillip's delusions that he was somehow above the law.†   (source)
  • But it was a thrill to be deluded in such a high-quality way.†   (source)
  • He said you thought you were pregnant, but it was just a delusion.†   (source)
  • What delusion was I under that I thought I could outwit him?†   (source)
  • And I let people on the outside hold their delusions, too.†   (source)
  • I can't fly airplanes if my instructor thinks I'm delusional."†   (source)
  • "And if you look in the dictionary under 'delusional megalomaniac,' you'll see your picture."†   (source)
  • "He was just a deluded old lunatic, after all," I murmured to myself.†   (source)
  • It is impossible not to prove that this whole letter is not a similar delusion to that of the fly.†   (source)
  • Self-deluding heroics always get in the way and screw things up.†   (source)
  • Richter, Cooper, Bob, and a dozen other faculty members were released from their delusional state.†   (source)
  • Only the stupid and the delusional are not.†   (source)
  • This is her accomplishment these days: deluding the tutor.†   (source)
  • Asha had loved her father, but she did not delude herself.†   (source)
  • George wanted it both ways, and Cicely deluded herself into thinking she wanted that, too.†   (source)
  • Lord Stark had probably had his delusions as well.†   (source)
  • And don't delude yourself, either, Mr Original.†   (source)
  • The Shaper's lies, the hero's self-delusion, now this: the idea of a queen!†   (source)
  • I am grateful for the extended stay within your lands, but this boy is delusional.†   (source)
  • Sometimes a Senate protects the people from their own errors and delusions.†   (source)
  • Small wonder I disregarded the sensation as another delusion.†   (source)
  • This is what the doctors mean when they say Noah is delusional.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: You're deluded .... Martha, you're deluded.†   (source)
  • I don't delude myself that it shall go smoothly."†   (source)
  • Is her mind betraying her, cultivating delusion like a hothouse orchid?†   (source)
  • Do not delude yourself into pretending this is a real date.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Delusional finally finishes assigning seats.†   (source)
  • No, we did not assist Zalachenko in any crime—that's the delusion of a mentally ill teenage girl."†   (source)
  • Bearing neither malice or ill will towards anyone, not even the most deluded ….†   (source)
  • It's a …. a program, a delusional construct.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.†   (source)
  • I thought it was a turning point, but maybe I was just deluding myself again.†   (source)
  • Why should it hurt other people, if it's nothing but a delusion?†   (source)
  • "…but I don't want to encourage you in this weird delusion of yours."†   (source)
  • She was hallucinating, and she couldn't stop the waves of delusion anymore.†   (source)
  • When Edward's voice came back to me now, it was not the perfect imitation of my delusions.†   (source)
  • Then there should be no reason to go forward under any delusions.†   (source)
  • Let not our posterity be deluded with fictions under the pretense of poetical or graphical license.†   (source)
  • Why engineer-enhanced, delusional puppets like Evan Walker?†   (source)
  • Maybe he was delusional—or maybe tonight had been too much for him.†   (source)
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