"Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early."

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"Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early."

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"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

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