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“One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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“In short, the way to avoid misunderstanding is for everybody to lie and slander and insinuate and pretend as hard as they can. That is what obeying your mother comes to.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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“The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre; let us leave this commission to men who are more obedient and more supple.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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“What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view...”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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“Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

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“Folk songs are evasive — the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that’s exactly the way we want it to be.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

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“when grown-ups told you something wouldn’t hurt it almost always did.”

― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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“Patriotism, on the other hand, is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

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