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The thing was said it was as if a secret curse was for ever dogging his footsteps, and spreading poison all around. Kyllikki's despair gathered and grew like an avalanche. What a blind self-deceit their life had been! How they had hoped and dreamed with a gulf of naked hopelessness on every side! "If only I had what I have hoped for these last two years, then I could bear it all.
He weighed the Judge in the balance that morning, and half forgot his own woe in marveling at the discrepancies which he discovered. Self-deceit may or may not be easy of accomplishment. Maybe it is merely a matter of temperament and circumstance, after all.
Whatever gloss the various spectators put upon the interest, according to their several arts and powers of self-deceit, the interest was, at the root of it, Ogreish. Silence in the court!
Her soul was bare to her and all its needs. There was no refuge in ascetic resolve, in the self-deceit of spiritual enthusiasm. She could say to herself: You are free to love him; then love and be satisfied. Could she, when a-hungered, look on food, and bid her hunger be appeased by the act of sight? Thus long she had held up, but despair was closing in upon her, and an anguish worse than death.
This anomalous frame of mind was new; it confused and staggered him. He seemed to be swayed by an external impulse, and resented it with miserable self-deceit. But he stayed. Harry did not greatly enrich the conversation during the hour spent in Mrs.
She dried her tears and lay toying with her book and sadly putting into thought a thing she had never more than felt before: that whatever she might wisely or unwisely do with it, she held in her nature a sacred gift of passion; that life, her life, could never bloom in full joy and glory shut out from wifehood and motherhood, and that the idlest self-deceit she could attempt would be to say she need not marry.
And this strict scrutiny is no where more necessary, because there is no where more room for the operation of self-deceit.
Every epoch, under names more or less specious, has deified its peculiar errors; Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age; and Self-deceit is the veiled image of unknown evil, before which luxury and satiety lie prostrate.
Prom this notorious fact the author deduces an argument against a special moral faculty, or moral sense; he says that if we had such a faculty, it would surely judge our own passions, which are the most clearly laid open to it, more correctly than the passions of others. To correct our self-partiality and self-deceit is the use of general rules.
And now the strokes followed sharply one on another. "A fine figure and curling hair ... tears and empty promises ... a thirst for beauty ... false brotherhood ... selfishness and the desire for conquest ... dying voices of childhood ... dreams and self-deceit...." "Enough!" "Not yet. There are little extras that you have not called to mind." "Leave me in peace!" cried Olof almost threateningly.
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