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#1

“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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#2

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: blindness, fools, self-deception, truth, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance

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#3

“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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#4

“People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: self-deception

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#5

“We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in a man's head for sanity alongside each grief, each worry, each terror that he owns. I’m well used to burying such things in a dark cellar and moving on.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

tags: grief, honesty, sanity, self-deception, terror, worry

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#6

“My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.”
― Ted Chiang, Exhalation

tags: behavior, belief, civilization, coma, decisions, free-will, lie, matter, reality, self-deception

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#7

“Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you've never had it so good.”
― David Salle

tags: love, self-deception

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#8

“People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: answers, arrogance, deceit, ego, humility, knowledge, lack-of-knowledge, lack-of-wisdom, learning, love, pride, questions, self-deception, selfish, teaching, wisdom

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#9

“Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.”
― Cees Nooteboom

tags: fantastical-thinking, fantasy, language, night-thoughts, self-deception, self-knowledge, words

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