"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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"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."

Voltaire, French Writer

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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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"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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"This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms."

Joni Mitchell, Canadian Musician

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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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