"Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true."

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"Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true."

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"I could lie and tell you I'm a hardcore gamer - I'm not."

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"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

William James, American Philosopher

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"Weaklings must lie."

Jean Paul, German Author

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"The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie."

Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

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

Lawrence Durrell, British Writer

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"When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around."

Ken Kesey, American Author

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"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you."

Roger Ebert, American Critic

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"Lying can never save us from another lie."

Vaclav Havel, Czechoslovakian Leader

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"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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"Sanity is a cozy lie."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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"There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth."

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