Admit it..

Variation of the above by the same brilliant author

Admit to your Ugliness
to find true Happiness.
Anything else is pretense.

Here are a few synonyms for "pretense":

act, acting, affectation, appearance, artifice, charade, claim, cloak, cover, deceit, deception, display, dissimulation, double-dealing*, dumb act*, evasion, excuse, fabrication, facade, fakery, faking, falsification, feigning, gag, guise, insincerity, invention, make-believe, mask, masquerade, misrepresentation, misstatement, ostentation, posing, posturing, pretentiousness, pretext, routine, ruse, semblance, sham*, shtick, shuffling, simulation, stall, stunt, subterfuge, trickery, veil, veneer, wile

Which makes the pretender any of these:

bluff, charlatan, chiseler, con man, confidence man, conniver, cozener, crook, deceiver, decoy, defrauder, dodger, double-crosser*, double-dealer*, enticer, fake, hypocrite, impostor, jockey, knave, masquerader, pretender, quack, rascal, rogue, scammer*, shark, sharper, shyster, swindler, trickster

Any of the above is a matching description of you and your relationships with others, unless you are ruthlessly honest.

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Admit it..