"To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself."

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"To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself."

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"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."

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"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

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