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“Deciding denial was the better part of valor, CK pretended nothing was out of the ordinary.”
“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”
“The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren't ready.”
“It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.”
“From time to time, we all must go unto a landscape—be it inner or outer landscape—where there are no hiding places. Allowing the stark awe and silence to aid us in both communing and confronting th...”
“The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of nor...”
“The worst denial of all is being in denial that we’re in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that’s not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.”
“I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play.”
“I’m still pretty sick about what I’ve lost, but I only admit it to myself late at night, which is probably why I’m not the best sleeper.”
“I would like to say that I’m sacrificial. But am I sacrificial enough to acknowledge the fact that I’m not?”
“If I worship the fact that I don’t worship anything, amongst other things what I’m worshipping is denial.”
“Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I'll pretend there's nothing wrong if you pretend there's nothing wrong. It's called denial, and it's one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just...”
“what you knowand don’t deny thatyou don’t knowand knowing thisyou knowwhat and whyyou don’t know.Right?”
“...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.”
“If you believe everything you feel is an illusion then you’re delusional. Your emotion is part you. You’re made with it. Denying it and thinking it is all your mind, is denying your existence.”
“This was progress. This was modernity: you could cover over the past completely. You could bury the old under a relentless surface of new, stretched from corner to corner.”
“Few love to hear the sins they love to act.”
“Mental and emotional freedom is not the denial of truth — it’s the recognition that truth isn't something we need to run from or be afraid of.”
“Can we please drop the whole ‘school starts tomorrow’ talk? I’d like to live in denial for a little while longer.”
“Claire hated to say it, but she knew the answer, in her heart. “Because he feels something for me, and he wanted to give me a chance to live. Like him. With him. But I refused.”Shane turned and loo...”
