"The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception."
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"A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived."
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"Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises."
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"Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer."
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"James says that you deceive yourself if you only hear the Word but do not do it. How many people live in this deception their whole life-hearing and hearing, but never even trying to do what they hear!"
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"If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address."
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"To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base."
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"When your art fails, make better art."
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"The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die."
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"No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it."
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"The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent."
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"Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied."
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"Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!"
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"The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors."
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"Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost."
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"The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception."
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"It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self."
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"When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless."
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"Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery."
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"Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes."
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