There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.
Charles DickensTags: self-deception enjoyment
Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy a good number of us, when any line of action will promote our own interest, can make ourselves believe that reasons exist which compel us to it as a duty.
Elizabeth GaskellTags: purpose belief self-deception reasoning duty ends interest sardonic
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
W. Somerset MaughamTags: lies self-deception lying
You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.
Jodi PicoultTags: self-deception self-delusion
I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me
I believe in my dance-- And my destiny
Tags: lies faith self-deception lying personality masks disguises idenity
What do you mean, Phib?" asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw - not herself, but the reflection of some pleasant image in her own brain.
Charles DickensTags: self-deception self-perception mirrors
Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you've never had it so good.
David SalleTags: love self-deception
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
Rudyard KiplingTags: fear self-deception liars
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.
Fulke GrevilleTags: self-deception
For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning your inability to take what is your due, to secure what you won in bloody battles on the barricades of Paris and Vienna, in the American Civil War, in the Russian Revolution. Your Paris ended with Petain and Laval, your Vienna with Hitler, your Russia with Stalin, and your America may well end in the rule of the Ku Klux Klan! You've been more successful in winning your freedom than in securing it for yourself and others. This I knew long ago. What I did not understand was why time and again, after fighting your way out of a swamp, you sank into a worse one. Then groping and cautiously looking about me, I gradually found out what has enslaved you: YOUR SLAVE DRIVER IS YOU YOURSELF. No one is to blame for your slavery but you yourself. No one else, I say!
Wilhelm ReichTags: liberty war self-deception revolution dictatorship civil-war orgone hitler russian-revolution emotional-plague stalin laval petain
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