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Image of Teju Cole
It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.
- Teju Cole
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Image of Publilius Syrus
It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.
- Publilius Syrus
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Image of Andrew Bird
Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.
- Andrew Bird
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Image of Ann Druyan
The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.
- Ann Druyan
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Image of Michael Hudson
You have the economic vocabulary turning into vocabulary of deception.
- Michael Hudson
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Image of Anatole France
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
- Anatole France
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Image of Franz Grillparzer
I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
- Franz Grillparzer
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Image of Mehmet Murat Ildan
The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Image of Sydney J. Harris
Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.
- Sydney J. Harris
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Image of Frank Herbert
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
- Frank Herbert
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Image of Samuel Johnson
Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of Francis Bacon
If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.
- Francis Bacon
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Image of C. S. Lewis
Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.
- C. S. Lewis
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Image of Soren Kierkegaard
A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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Image of Herman Melville
What like a bullet can undeceive!
- Herman Melville
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