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Doris Lessing

"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."

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"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."

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"The fact differentiates the fake."

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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."

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"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."

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

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

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"Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more."

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

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"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"

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

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"The Scripture is never subjected to one's own interpretations."

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"If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air."
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"This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything."
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"Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them."
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"For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying."
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"There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be."
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"What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."
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"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer."
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"Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing."
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"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best."
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