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  • #1
    Criss Jami
    “As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: blurriness, chaos, complexity, confusion, deceit, evil, fools, good, righteousness, self-deception, self-righteous, simplicity, sin, thought, uncertainty
    23 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: argue, arguing, argumentation, babble, babbling, correct, craftiness, debate, debating, deceit, english, fallacies, fallacy, funny, funny-but-true, humor, incorrect, justification, language, psychobabble, psychology, redefine, refutation, retorts, self-justification, study, wrongness
    36 likes

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  • #3
    Munia Khan
    “It is hard to befool a fool who has already been fooled so many times”
    ― Munia Khan
    tags: befooled, befooling, deceit, deceit-quotes, deceitful, fool, fool-quotes, foolishness, fools, hard, many, stupid, stupidity, wise, wise-quotes, wise-words
    14 likes

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  • #4
    Criss Jami
    “Sometimes you feel as though you've slandered yourself, but the joke's on them.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: deceit, discernment, gossip, humor, joke, judgment, libel, life, mistakes, slander
    7 likes

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  • #5
    J.S. Mason
    “His mentality was dressed up as a moral code, but when naked, was simply a preference.”
    ― J.S. Mason, The Stork Ate My Brother...And Other Totally Believable Stories
    tags: clever, deceit, deception, decisions, ethical, funny, morality, philosophical, witty
    3 likes

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  • #6
    Gregory Maguire
    “Whispering can disguise the shape of syllables, but not of mood.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker
    tags: deceit, mood, whisper
    2 likes

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  • #7
    Kate McGahan
    “Once you know true love you will never again be deceived by its counterfeit.”
    ― Kate McGahan
    tags: contrast, counterfeit, deceit, experience, fake, knowledge, learn, love, untrue
    13 likes

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  • #8
    John Connolly
    “He will say less than he means, and conceal more than he reveals.”
    ― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
    tags: crooked-man, deceit, deception, fairy-tale, lies, secrets, truths, truths-of-life
    11 likes

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  • #9
    Munia Khan
    “He belongs to a whorehouse, not in my heart”
    ― Munia Khan
    tags: broken-heart, cheat, dark, deceit, deceiver, heart, love, unfaithful, unfaithfulness, whorehouse
    7 likes

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  • #10
    Emily Hainsworth
    “I so want to believe him, but right now even his touch feels like a lie.”
    ― Emily Hainsworth, Take The Fall
    tags: deceit, lies, murder, touch
    5 likes

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  • #11
    Criss Jami
    “Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.”
    ― Criss Jami, Healology
    tags: bad-conscience, bias, confirmation-bias, conscience, crowd, dangerous, deceit, discernment, dishonest, evil, false-prophet, falsehood, fight, flattery, good, good-and-evil, good-conscience, honest, intentions, judgment, lies, majority, minority, misguided, mistaken, misunderstanding, mob, prophet, questioning, reputation, smooth-talk, stubborn, support, truth, understanding, war
    15 likes

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  • #12
    Criss Jami
    “Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”
    ― Criss Jami
    tags: aggravation, concealment, confusion, contemplation, dishonesty, hardcore, honesty, lie, lying, never, pain, provoke, secrecy, secrets, thinkers, thought, torture, truth
    981 likes

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  • #13
    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Cheating only thrills those who cannot see the beauty in faithfulness.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
    tags: betrayal, chances, cheat, cheater, cheating, dishonesty, fortune-hunter, opportunist, unfaithfulness
    7 likes

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  • #14
    Donita K. Paul
    “Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.”
    ― Donita K. Paul, DragonFire
    tags: bardon, brain, humor, tongue, tongues
    21 likes

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  • #15
    Veronica Roth
    “Lies require commitment.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: lies
    1125 likes

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  • #16
    Jeanne Birdsall
    “...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.

    - Mr. Penderwick”
    ― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
    tags: inspirational, lies, lying, truth
    380 likes

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  • #17
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”
    ― Nietzsche
    tags: convictions, existentialism, lies, truth
    425 likes

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  • #18
    Susan Forward
    “When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!”
    ― Susan Forward, When Your Lover Is a Liar: Healing the Wounds of Deception and Betrayal
    tags: compulsive-liars, deceit, infidelity, liar, lies, pathological-liars, trust
    340 likes

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  • #19
    Jennifer Salaiz
    “How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.”
    ― Jennifer Salaiz
    tags: denial, hate, lies, love, sarcasm, truth
    262 likes

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  • #20
    Christine Feehan
    “If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.”
    ― Christine Feehan, Oceans of Fire
    tags: break, heart, lies, truth
    63 likes

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  • #21
    Helen Cross
    “Her words were like tinfoil; they shone and they covered things up.”
    ― Helen Cross, My Summer Of Love
    tags: deception, lies, words
    67 likes

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  • #22
    “Fear the unknowledgeable, not the Wisdom, The dark has many secrets”
    ― Anujj Elviis
    tags: inspirational, inspirational-quotes, occult, wicca, wiccan
    2 likes

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  • #23
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93546 likes



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