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The ego is by nature a deceiver and in its operations a liar. For if it revealed things as they really are, or told what is profoundly true, it would have to expose its own self as the arch-trickster pretending to be the man himself and proffering the illusion of happiness.

-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 3 : Psyche > # 79 -- Perspectives > Chapter 8: The Ego > # 65