谎言怎么样损伤我们自己?

How Do Lies Injure Us?

(请哪位翻译小(大)师翻译一下.谢谢.)

Lies are designed to damage our grasp of reality. So they are intended, in a very real way, to make us crazy. To the extent that we believe them, our minds are occupied and governned by fictions, fantasies, and illusions that have been concocted for us by the liar.

The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness (by Andrienne Rich).The loneliness is precisely unutterable because the liar cannot even reveal that he is lonely ---that there is no one in his fabricated world---without disclosing, in doing so, that he has lied.

Harry Frankfurt, On Truth, Princeton University Press, 2006.