Sentence examples similar to self deceit from inspiring English sources

Sometimes, he says, people cannot live without self-deceit.

Watch out whenever you "tell yourself" anything; it's the red flag of self-deceit.

Is that a moment of self-revelation, or more self-deceit?

Depression is such a complex mix of self-knowledge and self-deceit.

As feminism has also argued, it is a colossal act of self-deceit.

Everyone is welcome to his self-deceit, to his measly cowardice.

The Australian, the paper that serialised them, described the diaries as a "mass of self-deceit and delusion".

It's helpful to pretend you didn't write the sentence, but that's not enough (and self-deceit of that kind vanishes quickly).

Amanda's level of self-deceit escalates, but her hopes for Laura's first and only gentleman caller are born of sad desperation, not real belief.

But Muslims are far more aware than we are of our self-deceit, of the "spiritual" price we pay for our freedom.

Now we have his first collection of long-form journalism, a tribute to the twin American traditions of self-invention and self-deceit.