“I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.”
“Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.”
“Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!”
“He said, speaking more to himself than to me: 'It was knowledge I sought. Knowledge which is clean and pure, far above the cheating and deceiving in which most men spend their lives.'And do you not find it,' I asked, 'this knowledge which you prize?'In part,' he said. 'I find other things, too. Things I do not desire but must accept. There is still cheating and deceiving.”
“You know, most men would get discouraged by now. Fortunately for you, I am not most men!”