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

Lie, Guilt, Punishment, Satisfaction

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

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"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Lie, Sickness, Words

"A lie never lives to be old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

Lie, Country, State

"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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

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

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"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think."

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"We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it."

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"For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination."

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"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."

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"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie."

"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."

"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

"A lie never lives to be old."

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."

"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Explore more quotes by Lawrence Durrell

"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."

"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think."

"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."

"Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked."

"Truth disappears with the telling of it."

"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."

"We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it."

"For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination."

"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."