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"But sometimes, by the deserving and the fortunate, even that task is accomplished. And when it is accomplished- behold!- all the truth of life is there: a moment of vision, a sigh, a smile- and the return to an eternal rest."
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."

"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."

"My truth could be very different than your truth."

"I see the truth in people because they can see the truth in me."

"The truth can do years of work in seconds."

"The Scripture is never subjected to one's own interpretations."
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"A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."

"They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience."

"Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters."

"As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook."
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