deceive oneself

“I thought we’d sort of forgiven and dealt with that, but I realised a few years ago that I hadn’t. I’d just shelved it. It revealed to me the depths of how one can deceive oneself. The costly road to forgiveness, that pain and agony, is something we have to tread if we are to get to a point where we find reconciliation.”

“By turning a blind eye to the report made by the E.U. and the Committee to Protect Journalists, one can deceive oneself and pretend to be living in a very democratic country,” wrote Ozgur Mumcu, a columnist for the newspaper Radikal.

The birds were trilling and chattering in the woods, and among so many sounds it was easy to deceive oneself.

"It is so easy to deceive oneself."

She followed her husband into German society; there she bore herself with such dignity that one could neither deceive oneself as to her attitude, nor bear a grudge against her for it.