I have left behind illusion ...

"I have left behind illusion," I said to myself. "Henceforth I live in a world of three dimensions — with the aid of my five senses.

I have since learned that there is no such world, but then, as the car turned out of sight of the house, I thought it took no finding, but lay all about me at the end of the avenue.

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited