What does illusion have to do with pleasure?

Question:...illusion is the first of all pleasures...Voltaire.

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: ...illusion is the first of all pleasures...Voltaire.

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Being a dreamer or visionary.

Plenty.
One believes in the beauty of their minds creation. So if you are living your own dream, it sweetens it all the more. All the details as one imagined it to be, you simply provide.

Your body's senses allows you to experience pleasure in the world, but your body is just an illusion of colliding atoms, like everything else. Then there's the atoms that make up your nervous system that gives the illusion that what you sense exist, when it's just an object of atoms being sensed by a human body of atoms through signals running through the atoms that create the nervous system.

Pleasure is an illusion, it never lasts.

If he meant illusion as "the suspension of disbelief," which by implication he had to mean, then it is necessary or we could not get pleasure from art.
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