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Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.
Umberto Eco
Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
Terry Brooks
I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.
Osamu Dazai
When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.
Buddha
An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our mind, which in time will potentially evolve and construct major events in history.
Djayawarman Alamprabu
No denial of the truth will ever invalidate it.
Nikki Rosen
To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.?
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
Khaled Hosseini
allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half painful self-deceit, to call them).
Mary Shelley
Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
Jim Butcher
Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.
George R.R. Martin
Deception was an inherent trait of intelligent beings. Even his love, in her ample ardor, would weave him a guilty lie for his own good. And he treasured her just as well for those tales he was sure she'd already spun.
Darrell Drake
And thus I clothe my naked villanyWith odd old ends stolen out of holy writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
William Shakespeare
When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.
Yiyun Li
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen
