History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.
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I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is meI believe in my dance-- And my destiny
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The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?
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Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.
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Reality denied comes back to haunt.
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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The best lies about me are the ones told.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.
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A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself.
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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
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For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning your inability to take what is your due, to secure what you won in bloody battles on the barricades of Paris and Vienna, in the American Civil War, in the Russian Revolution. Your Paris ended with Petain and Laval, your Vienna with Hitler, your Russia with Stalin, and your America may well end in the rule of the Ku Klux Klan! You've been more successful in winning your freedom than in securing it for yourself and others. This I knew long ago. What I did not understand was why time and again, after fighting your way out of a swamp, you sank into a worse one. Then groping and cautiously looking about me, I gradually found out what has enslaved you: YOUR SLAVE DRIVER IS YOU YOURSELF. No one is to blame for your slavery but you yourself. No one else, I say!
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Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy a good number of us, when any line of action will promote our own interest, can make ourselves believe that reasons exist which compel us to it as a duty.
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There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction.. No, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.
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To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?
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Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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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.
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Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.
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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
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I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.
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