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1 " We attribute to ourselves qualities that we do not possess because if we possessed them, our lives would exactly mirror our image of ourselves. Our lies about what is really happening in our lives are what we use to " patch up" our ego with rationalizations and justifications, all of which conceal from us the fact that we cannot really do anything because we have no Being. "
2 " Time turns our lies into truths. "
― Gene Wolfe , Shadow & Claw
3 " In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength. "
― Montesquieu , Persian Letters
4 " It's disappointing enough to know that the people we love will sometimes lie, but it is almost worse when we remember that strangers do this too, and this is why it is best not to admit our lies to strangers because it is not pleasant to learn that someone will lie even when there is little to nothing at stake. "
― Catherine Lacey , Nobody Is Ever Missing
5 " Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others. "
― Cortney S. Warren , Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception
