"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."

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"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."

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"Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the."

Mary McCarthy, American Author

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"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A lie never lives to be old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Sanity is a cozy lie."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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"The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

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"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the."

"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

"A lie never lives to be old."

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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

"Sanity is a cozy lie."

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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

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"A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying."

"Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened."

"The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know."

"Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist."

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