Ernest Becker Quotes About Lying
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It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.
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What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.
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If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal.
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Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.
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