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• A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy.

  Ric O'Barry

  Dolphins, Illusion, Always Happy

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• It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a doll inside our head, the only woman who is always available in fact, the only one we shall ever possess, whom the arbitrary nature of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the real Balbec had been from the Balbec I imagined- a dummy creation that little by little, to our own detriment, we shall force the real woman to resemble.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Real, Imagination

  Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast (2004). “The Guermantes Way”, Viking Press

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• With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely.

  Mary McCarthy

  Lonely, Ephemeral, Courtship

  Mary McCarthy (1975). “The company she keeps”, Not Avail

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• Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.

  Carl Jung

  God, Men, Self

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• Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.

  William C. Brown

  Art, Warfare, Life Is

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• Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

  Eleanora Duse

  Work, Mean, Love Is

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• Art lies because it's social.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Art, Lying, Social

  Fernando Pessoa, Iain Watson (1991). “The book of disquiet: a selection”, Quartet Encounters

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• Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

  Frederick Douglass

  Religious, Prayer, Greatness

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• What like a bullet can undeceive!

  Herman Melville

  Bullets

  Herman Melville (2006). “Selected Poems (Melville, Herman)”, p.15, Penguin

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• And here and now we must insist again that fidelity, honor, and love of country demand untrammeled debate and open dissent. At no time is that truer than in the midst of a war rooted in deceit and justified by continuing deception.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, War, Honor

  "John Kerry Gets His Voice Back" by James Boyce, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2006.

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• A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Deceiving, Resolution

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• The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Spring, Sacrifice

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of the federal states will not be done away.... The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such law is in itself a limited one.

  Adolf Hitler

  Power, Law, Numbers

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• Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.

  Eric Hoffer

  Evil, Able, Judgment

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• Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men; and they told of them many lawless deeds, stealing, adultery, and deception of each other.

  Xenophanes

  Men, Done, Deeds

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• Beauty is a mute deception.

  Theophrastus

  Beauty, Mute

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• If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.

  Steven Pinker

  Self, People, Political

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• Very often, I'm part of the deception because the way I play things is that I want you to be able to look back and go, "Oh, my god, I didn't see that at the time, but now it all makes sense," and you want to watch it a second time with the benefit of hindsight.

  Lucy Lawless

  Play, Watches, Looks

  "SALEM: Lucy Lawless Talks Season 2, ASH VS. EVIL DEAD, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2015.

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• Patience protects you from deception

  A. R. Bernard

  Protect You, Protect

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• What I've learned from fighting is that the lights in side the cage will tell everything you did or did not do in your camp! Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!

  Walel Watson

  Lying, Fighting, Light

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• Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.

  Walter Keane

  Eye, Paint

  "The Man Who Paints Those Big Eyes: The Phenomenal Success of Walter Keane" by Jane Howard, Life Magazine ' 59, no. 9, p. 39, August 27, 1965.

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• Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!

  Walel Watson

  Lying, Light, Doors

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• There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it's just ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Thinking, People

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• The spiritual life is the real life; all else is illusion and deception. Only those who are attached to God alone are truly free. Only those who live up to the highest light live in harmony. All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good. It is not important that others be noticeably affected: results should never be sought or desired. Know that every right
  thing you do - every good word you say - every positive thought you think - has good effect.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Motivation, Real

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• We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Deceived

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