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Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#deception

Appearances can be deceptive" he says quietly. "I'm anything but fine. I feel like the sun has set and not risen for five days, Ana. I'm in perpetual night here. ↗

— E.L. James

#deception

that's because it's from the night, and the night keeps secrets ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#night #deception

names are a way to keep people in your mind ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#deception

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#deception

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly. ↗

— Charles Fort

#deception #fortean #hypnosis #manipulation #mind-control

What else exhausts like sustained deception? ↗

— Leif Enger

#deception

What exactly was the difference? he wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms? ↗

— John Boyne

#epiphany #holocaust #thoughts #holocaust

The fatigue I've gathered year after year and stored inside now heaves a muted cry of helplessness. Nothing but fatigue, rounding my shoulders, heavier than ever on this late autumn day with a useless sun, a world of unforgiving disasters. So many struggles and tragedies, so much sorrow and egotism in this dark, in this rotting century of hate. ↗

— Emil Dorian

#holocaust #holocaust

You cannot insult a wise man with wisdom. ↗

— Colin Tegerdine

#life #wisdom #inspirational