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Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
"Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."— Mark Twain
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Meaning of this quote
Imaginative hopes can give life significance even when they are not literally true.
Key takeaway:
Examine which hopes sustain you and which mislead you.
Origin of the quote
Frequently circulated as Twain’s
Who actually said this?
Commonly attributedAn original Twain passage for the exact sentence was not located in this review; this record remains provisional.
