People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.
We are all worth something,' she said. 'Zottas are not worth more than the rest of us. Self-Deception makes us into monsters. Selfishness is an excuse to busy your empathy. People are basically good....
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is meI believe in my dance-- And my destiny
It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.
It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
You only reveal your game plan when you know you're winning, or losing.
Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge.
I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
Does not people's preoccupation these days with drugs, alcohol, medication and self deception prove that the truth not only hurts, but it is torture to bear?
A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself.
Man cannot bear to be in the wrong. As soon as he feels guilt or remorse, he bends his ethics to suit himself. Actions do not flow from ethics, but ethics from actions, and it is by refining our actio...
When you are the problem, it's hard to see it.
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