Alphabetarion # Illusions | Alexander Pushkin

Leonid Pasternak: Alexander Pushkin at the seashore, 1896

"Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths."

Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837)

Also:

Alphabetarion # Illusions | Elizabeth Bowen, 1899-1973 

Illusion is the first of all pleasures | Voltaire