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"I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them."
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"Confronting a liar makes a better liar."
"Never believe the beautiful. Trust me on this."
"In Swann's mind, however, these words, meeting no opposition, settled and hardened until they assumed the indestructibility of a truth so indubitable that, if some friend happened to tell him that he had come by the same train and had not seen Odette, Swann would have been convinced that it was his friend who had made a mistake as to the day or hour, since his version did not agree with the words uttered by Odette. These words had never appeared to him false except when, before hearing them, he had suspected that they were going to be. For him to believe that she was lying, and anticipatory suspicion was indispensable."
"A surfeit of information often hides an untruth, he said, with annoying clarity."
"Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also -- either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths."
"When a hypocrite or a wicked leader is in power, anyone that becomes popular or stands out easily becomes a prey."
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"I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them."
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