Lying (n.) is an essential condition for the functioning of language and life, inherent to langue itself because it consist merely of metaphors translating sensations into images and images into sounds.
Lying (n.) is a necessary thing. Life necessitates deception, simulation, and seduction in order to achieve its reproduction.
Lying (n.) is done by nobody as much as by the indignant.
Lying (n.) is essential to knowing truth. One who does not lie does not know what truth is.
Lying (n.) is most commonly perpetrated upon ourselves. Lying to others is a relative exception.
Lying (n.) is ubiquitous. The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.
Lying (n.) is hard to conceal. While the mouth lies, the accompanying grimace often tells the truth despite ourselves.
Lying (n.) is wanting not to see something one does see and wanting not to see something as one sees it. We lie to ourselves often. Lies told to others are a relative exception.
Lying (n.) is reflective of an innocence that is a sign of good faith in a cause.
Lying (n.) happens unspeakably often, but afterwards people do not remember it and on the whole do not believe it.
Lying (n.) is the fate of whoever cannot believe himself.
Lying (n.) is what we are accustomed to from time immemorial — or, more virtuously put, one is much more of an artist than one knows.
Lying (n.) is forbidden by philosophers, and their 'you should not lie' means: beware of telling the truth.