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Letter "D" » deceiving
«The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(
Philosopher,
Political scientist)
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Keywords:
deceiver,
deceivers,
deceiving,
efficiency,
falsehoods,
ineradicable,
in public,
liar,
possesses,
prevail,
primacy
«When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.»
Author: Joan Didion
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Journalist,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
deceiving,
fashionable,
hysteria,
imperative,
imperatives,
join us,
madmen,
pragmatic,
thin,
whine
«While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.»
«When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Deceit,
Romance,
Self awareness
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Keywords:
always,
And One,
begins,
be all and end all,
calls,
call at,
call out,
call up,
deceiving,
ends,
end on,
in love,
One World,
others,
romance,
romances,
romancing,
self,
that is,
The Calling,
The Loved One,
world