"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

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"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord pondereth the hearts."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"You have nothing to lose, only to live."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own."

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"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

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"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality."

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"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

Art

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

Literature

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."

Time

"I burn, I shiver, out of this sun, into this shadow."

Emotion

"So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again..."

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"I have lost friends some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street."

Friendship

"Anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm."

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