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• When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

  The Moon and Sixpence ch. 14 (1919)

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• Life is the art of being well deceived.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Deceived Us, Deceit

  William Hazlitt (1817). “The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners”, p.36

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• It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

  Blaise Pascal

  Novelty, Deceiving, Charm

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.80

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• In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

  Michael Musto

  Years, Ideas, Alternatives

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• Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

  George Herbert

  Feet, Physicians, Lawyer

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.143

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• Men still have to be governed by deception.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Hype, Political

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• If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Country, Eye, Greatness

  "Congressional Record, V. 150, PT. 13, July 22, 2004 to September 14, 2004". Book published by Government Printing Office, p. 18022, 2009.

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• All war is based on deception.

  Sun Tzu

  Peace, War, Hype

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• Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

  Claude Debussy

  Beautiful, Hope, Art

  "The Life of the Creative Spirit". Book by H. Charles Romesburg, 2001.

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• Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Sincere, Born, Deceiver

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• What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Needs, Irreverence, Rebirth

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• It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

  Anatole France

  Talent, Deceiving, Ability

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.76, Anatole France

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• Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Mean, Giving

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• Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Winning, Risk

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.127, Paradise Publishing

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• Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

  Scott Kahn

  Artist, Self, Portraits

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• A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Men, Sometimes

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• The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

  Oscar Wilde

  Party, Charm

  "The Picture of Dorian Gray".

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• Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality... Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Fashion, Lying

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• I drag my myth around with me.

  Orson Welles

  Drag, Myth

  Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich (1992). “This is Orson Welles”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

  George Orwell

  Power, Self, Hunger

  George Orwell (2005). “In defence of English cooking”, Penguin Hardcover

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• Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

  Rembrandt

  Men, Sincerity, Great Men

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• To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Kings, Feelings, Disguise

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• Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Training, Shadow, Academic

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• Drawing is deception.

  M. C. Escher

  Art, Drawing

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• There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

  George Eliot

  Infidelity, Deceit, Killing

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1538, Delphi Classics

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