A lie is a brutal reality.  It eats away at the spiritual life of the person.  It is relentless in its demands.  Those who "live" by lies are burned out by them because a lie is existential falsehood.   It demands that one be false to oneself and others too.  It can never be otherwise.  The lie-shackled person is never free.  The condition or practice of lying creates the liar.  The liar is self- victimizing and other victimizing too. Liars deceive themselves into believing that no one will ever find out the magnitude of their lies, but there is a God in heaven whose eyelids try the hearts of people.