All 5 Uses of
deceit
in
Atlas Shrugged
- The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud-he was guilty of them all.†
Chpt 1.10 *
- …the cost to him and to her, then dragging the rest of his years through the waste of the unreached and unfulfilled —she, turning for consolation to a second choice, faking a love she did not feel, being willing to fake, since her will to self-deceit was the essential required for Galt's self-sacrifice, then living out her years in hopeless longing, accepting, as relief for an unhealing wound, some moments of weary affection, plus the tenet that love is futile and happiness is not to be…†
Chpt 3.2
- But this-she thought-was men's moral code in the outer world, a code that told them to act on the premise of one another's weakness, deceit and stupidity, and this was the pattern of their lives, this struggle through a fog of the pretended and unacknowledged, this belief that facts are not solid or final, this state where, denying any form to reality, men stumble through life, unreal and unformed, and die having never been born.†
Chpt 3.2
- With a look of stubborn bewilderment, with the last of her effort at self-deceit, she moaned in a voice of tearfully petulant reproach, "Are you really incapable of forgiveness?"†
Chpt 3.6
- So use every power of deceit you can command, but convince them that you hate me.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(deceit) the act of lying to or misleading someone