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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works
    tags: fear, liars, self-deception
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: self-deception
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
    tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom
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    Saul Bellow
    “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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    Derek Landy
    “The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?"

    "Wouldn't I know which one I was?"

    "Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
    ― Derek Landy, Death Bringer
    tags: good-and-evil, lies, perception, personality, self-deception, truth, truth-and-lies, villains
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    Jodi Picoult
    “You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
    tags: self-deception, self-delusion
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    Derek Landy
    “The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
    ― Derek Landy, Death Bringer
    tags: lies, lying-to-ourselves, self-deception, telling-lies
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    Criss Jami
    “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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    Steve Maraboli
    “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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    Criss Jami
    “Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: deceit, excuses, fool, genius, honesty, misunderstood, nonsense, self-deception
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Who do you think is lying to us?” Shevek demanded.
    Placid, Bedap met his gaze. “Who, brother? Who but ourselves?”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
    tags: self-deception
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