Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
I fooled everyone with a huge smile, for years and years. I never showed anyone my tears. — Francine Chiar Copy Share Image
Don't rush into something just because it looks good, because a lot of things that look good aren't always good for you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Your mind will play tricks on you and your eyes will deceive you.. But your heart will always tell you the truth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream,… — Christian Scriver Copy Share Image
This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
A stand in is a politician who can deliver her constituency to her Wall Street backers. That's what a politician does in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees Excerpt from To Kiss a King by… — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
“She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never judge someone. The most beautiful people could be the most scarred, and the most scarred could be the most beautiful. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
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