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Charles Dickens _ Great Expectations
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.
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John Steinbeck _ Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir
It was strange to Old Robert that he, who knew so much more than his neighbors, who had pondered so endlessly, should be not even a good farmer. Sometimes he imagined he understood too many things ever to do anything well.
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Saul Bellow _ To Jerusalem and Back
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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George Eliot _ Adam Bede
How can a man's candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind-impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.
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W. Somerset Maugham _ The Painted Veil
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Carol Lee _ To Die For
Deception' is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would seem to offer something to those unwary or unlucky enough to suffer from it - friendship, a get-out, or a haven - when, in fact, it is a trap.
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Philip K. Dick _ Flow My Tears, the Policeman
Reality denied comes back to haunt.
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