"Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion."

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, American Writer

Trust, Belief, Absence, Illusion

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"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"A man in loss is not a man to trust."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Trust, Secrecy, Discretion, Awareness

"Know sincere well through the real acts of sincere and not just through its mere words and deceptive actions that end in deep regret before you give your true heart to sincere. So many people have trusted because of sincere but they only saw the mere word and image of sincere and not the real meaning and action of sincere!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"They had to be untrustworthy enough to buy a minor alcohol but trustworthy enough to not walk away with my money."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"Surrender everything to God."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust."

Shelley Long, American Actress

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"Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people."

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"I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock."

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"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."

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"Desire creates its own object."

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"Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing."

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"Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships."

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"There are no original ideas. There are only original people."

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"Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings."

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"The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good."

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"True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings."

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