"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."

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"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."

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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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William James, American Philosopher

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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."

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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me."

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"The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious."

Edward Carpenter, English Activist

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"The hard fact is that not everyone does get published."

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