"Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception."

Truth, Deception, Hate, Consequence

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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

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"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"

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"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

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"Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death."

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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying."

Growth

"To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities-I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not-that one endures."

Strength

"The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame."

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"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

Emotion

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."

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"He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed."

Fate

"When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame."

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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."

"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."

"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"

"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us."

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

"Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom."

"More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?"

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

"To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death."

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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying."

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"He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed."

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"Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is."

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"Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy."