#deceiving

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen. ↗

— Joan Didion

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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. ↗

— Elias Canetti

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