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1 " A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber. "
― Mahatma Gandhi , Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule
2 " What interest hath this empty world in me? and what is there in it that may seem so lovely, as to entice my desires and delight from thee, or make me loth to come away? When I look about me with a deliberate, undeceived eye, methinks this world is a howling wilderness, and most of the inhabitants are untamed, hideous monsters. All its beauty I can wink into blackness, and all its mirth I can think into sadness ; I can drown all its pleasures in a few penitent tears, and the wind of a sigh will scatter them away (650). "
― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest
3 " For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit. "
― Athanasius of Alexandria , On the Incarnation
4 " In this, then, lies their power of understanding--understanding, without words, what is authentic or inauthentic. Thus it was the grimaces, the histrionisms, the false gestures and, above all, the false tones and cadences of the voice, which rang false for those wordless but immensely sensitive patients. It was to these (for them) most glaring, even grotesque, incongruities and improprieties that my aphasic patients responded, undeceived and undeceivable by words.This is why they laughed at the President's speech. "
― Oliver Sacks , The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
