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“I have, he went on, betrayed myself with
belief, deluded myself with love
tricked myself with sex.
the bottle is damned faithful, he said,
the bottle will not lie”
― Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
belief, deluded myself with love
tricked myself with sex.
the bottle is damned faithful, he said,
the bottle will not lie”
― Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
“I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my mother's death, with losing my mother and not being able to get her back. All that blind, infantile hunger to save and be saved, to repeat the past and make it different, had somehow attached itself, ravenously, to her. There was an instability in it, a sickness. I was seeing things that weren't there. I was only one step away from some trailer park loner stalking a girl he'd spotted in the mall. For the truth of it was: Pippa and I saw each other maybe twice a year; we e-mailed and texted, though with no great regularity; when she was in town we loaned each other books and went to the movies; we were friends; nothing more. My hopes for a relationship with her were wholly unreal, whereas my ongoing misery, and frustration, were an all-too-horrible reality. Was groundless, hopeless, unrequited obsession any way to waste the rest of my life?”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“I had deluded myself throughout by the idea of reviving a secret love which did not exist at all.”
― The Sea, the Sea
― The Sea, the Sea
“Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give them in its place. It's ok if people delude themselves; those delusions keep their day running.”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“I constantly pack my pockets full of worthless trinkets, and in such misguided gorging I leave my heart empty and my soul emaciated because I have forgotten everything but trinkets.”
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“Once the people have been deluded into believing that speeches and voting are the only acceptable tools by which to affect change in their nation, those who are in control no longer need to worry about any significant challenge to their power.”
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“Don't allow yourself to be fooled by how "nice" a person appears to be, measure a person's virtuousness by the way in which they treat others with their words and actions .”
― Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
― Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“If I have attached anything to sacrifice other than loss, I have at some level assumed a pay-off. And if I’ve assumed a pay-off, I’m only assuming a sacrifice.”
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“It was not for me, after these last seventy-two hours, to reject as too outlandish the possibility that the situation for him here had driven George crazy. Yet I did reject it. It was just too insipid a conclusion. Not everybody was cray. Resolute is not crazy. Deluded is not crazy. To be thwarted, vengeful, terrified, treacherous--this is not to be crazy. Not even fanatically held illusions are crazy, and deceit certainly isn't crazy--deceit, deviousness, cunning, cynicism, all of that is far from crazy...and there, that, deceit, there was the key to my confusion. Of course!”
― Operation Shylock: A Confession
― Operation Shylock: A Confession
“What I'd said wasn't any kind of honesty, but Simon had perfected the art of seeing what he wanted to see, because it's easier to go through life like that, to see the world as a series of familiar things, a place where everyone feels how you feel and sees what you see.”
― Nobody Is Ever Missing
― Nobody Is Ever Missing
“My rather arrogant attitude deludes me into believing that my ability to understand something is the criteria for its legitimacy. And if there’s one thing in my life that I don’t understand yet I allow to be legitimate, thinking this way would most certainly be it.”
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“When they got married, she could include them in her wedding vows: You were always there for me, always. You were always there for me, always. You were always there for me, always.
They were the most beautiful words he'd ever heard.”
― You Know You Want This
They were the most beautiful words he'd ever heard.”
― You Know You Want This
“I was like this totally serious kid, and this totally angsty teenager. I probably only smiled and laughed when I was deluded into thinking it would make some jerk like me.”
― Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
― Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
“The greatest battle in the fight for ‘something better’ is the fight against all of the things that we’ve been deluded into believing are better.”
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“Today he is deluded by a love he does not deserve. She leaves without knowing what passion is. At the time of affection in the middle of the road. She blocks you and says she is feeling bad; A person like that hides the game. She wants to have a reason to end it all and that's it. But you do not see the other's heart. Wanting someone who catches you and calls you to know; The toss of love, affection and understanding. She just wants to know what a passion is.”
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“Those who expect their dreams to come true without any physical or mental effort are deluding themselves.”
― Life Is a Dance
― Life Is a Dance
“Sin is deciding that a momentary pleasure is worth a lifetime of destruction. And if true pleasure is of such character that it never invites destruction, then sin destroys us for something that we never got.”
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“Governments I leave to people who have the illusion they run them,” Abby said dryly. “Protocol comes in handy when you have to keep such deluded people happy.”
― Deserter
― Deserter
“To call oneself a politician and in the same breath to declare that one is an American appears to be the notion of the soul deluded by the muse of their own rhetoric.”
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