#deceive

You’re all alone. No one wants you anymore. How long did you think we would all stay? You’ve killed each and every person who ever loved you. Even your children won’t want you. They will see what you have done. You must be the first ward in history to treat your guardian so badly that he left you. Do you think your mistress will stay? No. Elizabeth will take what she wanted and then she will leave you too. ↗

— S.K.N. Hammerstone

#skn-hammerstone #the-deceived #vessel-of-souls #ya #ya-horror

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#comfort #deceit #deceive #dejan-stojanovic #literature

Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor. ↗

— Mary Astell

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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. ↗

— George Bancroft

#dishonesty #god #grasping #himself #honesty is

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived. ↗

— Sissela Bok

#deceived #desire #liars #share #those

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#blair #both #bush #carefully #combined

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#benefit #deceived #endeavor #get #knowledge

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive. ↗

— Sissela Bok

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