<em>Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.</em>

Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves.

La mayor parte de las formas de degradación personal y maldad pública se desencadenan y sustentan con la mentira. Los actos de adulterio y demás deslealtades personales, el fraude económico, la corrupción gubernamental... hasta el asesinato y el genocidio suelen requerir un defecto moral adicional: la disposición para mentir.

¿Cómo se puede mentir poniendo a la razón de parte de uno?

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

las investigaciones indican que los mentirosos confían menos en aquellos a quienes mienten que si no les mintieran; y cuanto más dañinas son sus mentiras, menos confían en sus víctimas, e incluso menos les agradan. Parece que los mentirosos suelen despreciar a las personas a las que mienten para preservar su ego e interpretar que su conducta está justificada.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.

She knows she's deceiving herself about that, but she prefers to deceive herself. She desperately needs to believe such pure joy is still possible.

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.

we all fool ourselves from time to time in order to keep our thoughts and beliefs consistent with what we have already done or decided.

...también me mentía a mi misma, al decir que mi rechazo eran miedo a volver a sentir eso por alguien más; eran las tontas esperanzas de verte volver, tu que siempre tuviste las palabras para sanarme o romperme...

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.