The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying but they keep lying anyway, and we keep pretending to believe them.
Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs (2010), page 181. Several variants of this passage are being circulated widely on the Internet, usually misattributed to Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.
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