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Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.
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Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events .
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
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The deceptive, glossy media images of faces, bodies and social lifestyles, make us hate ourselves so we will buy a solution to love ourselves once again.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
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