" But I think - and I say this not to salve my own feelings, but because I have truly come to believe it - that something more complex goes on in the mind of those who we say are "fooled". That there is an additional self-deception, a self victimization. The dupe become both robber and robbed, both living in the same mind, the one constantly deceiving the other.
Because something profound must happen in the mind to convince a man to distrust the common sense acquired over decades, not just once, but continuously. "

― Dexter Palmer , Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen