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#1

“People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

tags: discomfort, force-of-nature, marriage, matrimony, nature, pleasure, self-deception

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#2

“Reality denied comes back to haunt.”
― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

tags: behavior, history, psychology, self-deception

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#3

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
― Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back

tags: avoidance, ignorance, illusion, intelligence, self-deception

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#4

“Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: lying, self-deception

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#5

“I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: action, afraid, burning, confusion, destruction, fear, fire, forest, inner-peace, insensibility, laziness, peace, pretend, self-deception

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#6

“It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

tags: decadence, ethics, morality, nihilism, philosohers, philosophy, power, self-deception, will

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#7

“Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: deny, happiness, honesty, lying, potential, self-deception, success, truth

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