"I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception."
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"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?"
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"It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power."
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"A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself."
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"To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified."
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"Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity."
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"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception."
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"To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires."
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"Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception."
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"The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are."
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"It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others."
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"Compromise is the welcome mat to deception."
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"One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed."
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"All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been."
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"Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves."
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"A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception."
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"If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!"
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"I drag my myth around with me."
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"Art lies because it's social."
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"Art lies by its own artifice."
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