“The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer
Source: Death Bringer
“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
— V.S. Naipaul, book In a Free State
Source: In a Free State (1971)
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