Man, the lying is brutal isn't it? I used to accept the little white lies. But the more I pulled the little thread, the more it unwound, the more I saw that it was one gigantic web of lies, so complicated and obstructive that one has to take a very large step back in order to see the sheer magnitude of it. Only then did I see the truth - namely that everything this person was about, was all lies. Lies on top of lies on top of even bigger lies. This is what enables the addiction to continue and grow.
It's a real chicken or the egg thing. Did the person become addicted because it is a personality trait within he/she to lie and manipulate, or did the addiction cause it? To be sure, one feeds the other, and it likely doesn't matter where it all started.
Does it go away? Not in my experience.