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#1

“When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

tags: consciousness, honesty, human-nature, lying, man, penalize, psychology, punishment, reaction, response, self-defense, unconscious-mind

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#2

“Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
― Sara Shepard, Perfect

tags: lying, perfect, pretty-little-liars, sara-shepard, truth

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#3

“The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.”
― Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs

tags: lying, soviet-union

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#4

“So you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, that's good to know, I guess."
"I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways."
"How'd you mean it, then?"
"I just...I don't always say what I feel."
"Why not?"
"Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
"Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

tags: lies, truth

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#5

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: attributed-no-source, lies, lying, misattributed-mark-twain, statistics, truth

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#6

“It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.”
― Ally Carter, Heist Society

tags: lies, truth

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#7

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
― André Malraux

tags: deception, hiding, lies, man, secrets, self-awareness

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#8

“La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."

("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.")”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

tags: deception, devil, existence, reality, ruse, ruses, sleight-of-hand, tricks

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#9

“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: art, books, deception, fiction, lies, novels, on-fiction, plot, truth, weaving, writing

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#10

“When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

tags: beliefs, lies, power

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