"Lying is the most simple form of self-defence."

Deception, Lying, Self

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"Lying is the most simple form of self-defence."

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"Confronting a liar makes a better liar."

Wayne Gerard Trotman, British Author

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"Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible."

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"We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"One of the crafty tricks Satan plays is to guide a person safely on the wrong path. When your safety is the priority, you may be on the wrong path but may not know."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

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"A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind."

Jim Butcher, American Author

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"But men are bound to saySome things that, though untrue,Will get you down the aisleUntil you say "I do."

Joyce Rachelle, Filipino Author

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"Affected simplicity is refined imposture."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"People need to remember that a man who is deceptive deceives by hiding that he is deceptive. He is not going to openly validate that he is deceiving you because his aim is to deceive you."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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Charles Van Doren, American Celebrity

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"In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding - at a distance, through the medium of photography - other people's pain."

Observation

"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."

Art

""Camp" is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated."

Love

"If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories."

Learning

"As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible."

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"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning."

Fiction

"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."

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"I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting."

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"It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades."

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"For the modern consciousness, the artist (replacing the saint) is the exemplary sufferer. And among artists, the writer, the man of words, is the person to whom we look to be able best to express his suffering."

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