
“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
“The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self.”
The Disowned (1828), Chapter xlii.
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), II : The Starting-Point
Better Together.
Song lyrics, In Between Dreams (2005)
Source: Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
Lie Detector Test, p. 119.