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Self deception Quotes

"Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess"

"Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction."

"If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself."

"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see"

"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."

"To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity."

"All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. Thinking that what we believe is the special thing about us is a way to avoid facing our own limitations"

"The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in"

"The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff"

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant"

"We lie best when we lie to ourselves"

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

"You can't imagine how much happiness I found trapped inside a lie."

"It is remarkable that the human mind can manage to be so wrong yet so confident"

"You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty."

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