Quotes About Deception

Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of deeds, errors, sins, injustice). Both are sham. The truth lies at the opposite end of the scale: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be rectified. All rectification (both vengeance and forgiveness) will be taken over by oblivion.

On the surface, there was always an impeccably realistic world, but underneath, behind the backdrop's cracked canvas, lurked something different, something mysterious or abstract.

But was it love? Was it simply the hysteria of a man who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?

Delante hay una mentira comprensible y tras ella reluce una verdad incomprensible.

He took a look at the blond girl's eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in which the ephemeral passes for the eternal and the small for the big, that he must not take part in the rigged game called love.

Whe you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful and polite, you have a hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true, that nothing is sincere. Maintaining nonbelief requires a tremendous effort and the proper training.

If God's masons built real walls, I doubt we'd be able to destroy them. But instead of walls all I see is backdrops, sets. And sets are made to be destroyed.

Un valor vulnerado y una ilusión desenmascarada suelen tener el cuerpo igual de mortificado, se parecen, y no hay nada más fácil que confundirlos.

She knew she was acting like the most vulgar of women, the kind that is out to cause pain and knows how.

Na frente estava a mentira inteligível, e atrás a incompreensível verdade.

A value debased and an illusion unmasked have the same pitiful shell.

The way contemporary history is told is like a huge concert where they present all of Beethoven's one hundred thirty-eight opuses one after the other, but actually play just the first eight bars of each.

Meni se, me?utim, ?ini da umjesto zidova svuda vidim samo kulise. A razaranje kulisa stvar je dobra i pravedna.

Ze stelde zich op als een ordinair wijf dat niet wist hoe ze hem moest kwetsen.

The first betrayal is irreparable. It calls forth a chain reaction of further betrayals, each of which takes us farther and farther away from

It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. We do not know how to lie.

Ze wilde hun vertellen dat achter het communisme, achter het fascisme, achter alle bezettingen en invallen een wezenlijker en algemener kwaad schuilde; het beeld van dat kwaad is voor haar een optocht van marcherende mensen geworden die de handen heffen en eenstemmig dezelfde lettergrepen schreeuwen. Maar ze wist dat ze hun niet kon uitleggen. Verlegen bracht ze het gesprek op een ander onderwerp.

Most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory (of people, things, nations) and in redressibility (of mistakes, sins, wrongs)... In reality the opposite is true: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed.

No se trataba más bien de la historia de un hombre que en lo más profundo de su alma ha tomado conciencia de su incapacidad de amar y que por eso mismo empieza a fingir amor ante sí mismo?

When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have a hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true, that nothing is sincere. Maintaining nonbelief (constantly, systematically, without the slightest vacillation) requires a tremendous effort and the proper training-in other words, frequent police interrogations.

Imagineaza-ti ca ai fi trait intr-o lume unde nu exista oglinzi. Ai fi visat despre chipul tau si ti l-ai fi reprezentat ca pe o rasfrangere exterioara a ceea ce se afla in launtrul tau. Pe urma, cand ai fi avut patruzeci de ani, cineva ti-ar fi pus in fata o oglinda. Imagineaza-ti spaima care te-ar fi curpins vazand in fata ta un chip strain, absolut strain! Atunci ai fi inteles, cu claritate, ceea ce nu esti in stare sa intelegi acum: chipul tau nu esti tu

Was it simply the hysteria of a man who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?

Hay situaciones en las que las personas están condenadas a hacer teatro.

Capcana înÈ™el?toare a urii const? în aceea c? ne leag? într-o strâns? îmbr??iÈ™are cu adversarul