Quotes About Deception

Creo que la primera lectura es la verdadera, y que en las siguientes nos engañamos a nosotros mismos con la creencia de que se repite la sensación, la impresión.

Maneco Uriarte no mató a Duncan; las armas, no los hombres, pelearon. Habían dormido, lado a lado, en una vitrina, hasta que las manos las despertaron.

Hemos soñado el mundo. Lo hemos soñado resistente, misterioso, visible, ubicuo en el espacio y firme en el tiempo; pero hemos consentido en su arquitectura tenues y eternos insterticios de sinrazón para saber que es falso.

La historia era increíble, en efecto, pero se impuso a todos, porque sustancialmente era cierta. Verdadero era el tono de Emma Zunz, verdadero el pudor, verdadero el odio. Verdadero también era el ultraje que había padecido; sólo eran falsas las circunstancias, la hora y uno o dos nombres propios.

It only takes two facing mirrors to construct a labyrinth. from "Nightmares

Instinctively, he had already trained himself in the habit of pretending that he was someone, so it would not be discovered that he was no one.

yo sentía que el mundo es un laberinto, del cual era imposible huir, pues todos los caminos, aunque fingieran ir al norte o al sur, iban realmente a Roma

We touch a sphere, see a heap of dawn colored light, our mouths enjoy a tingling sensation, and we lie to ourselves that those three disparate things are only one thing called an orange.

Son el irresponsable juego de un tímido que se animó a escribir cuentos y que se distrajo en falsear y tergiversar (sin justificación estética alguna vez) ajenas historias.

El Ángel me decía que los carneros no eran del color de los tigres, el Satán me decía que el Poderoso quería que lo fueran y se valía de mi astucia y mi púrpura. Ahora yo sé que el Ángel y el Satán erraban la verdad y que todo color es aborrecible.

Lo creerás, Ariadna? —dijo Teseo—. El minotauro apenas se defendió.

From the remote depths of the corridor, the mirror spied on us. We discovered (such a discovery is inevitable in the late hour of the night) that mirrors have something monstrous about them.

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

Can a lie be taken as communication? I tend to deny it. A lie is the opposite of communication. It means specifically to withhold the other's share and portion of reality, to prevent his participation in reality.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

The efficacy of prayer consists in a cognitive-spiritual catharsis, which purifies man of the most hideous untruth and deception, namely, the pretension that he belongs to himself and that he is his own lord.

What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good.

Of all the forms of m?y? that of woman is supreme.

Hope lies to mortalsAnd most believe her,But man's deceiverWas never mine.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

It was one of the marks of sentience, the ability to distinguish reality from fantasy and still indulge in fantasy. In other words: I lied, therefore I thought.

Dreams are rarely founded on truth.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

There's enough of the social climber in most people so that they fall for this stuff and consider it a privilege to be admitted to a place that specializes in taking their money.