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"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."
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"I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."
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"The word of God is a testimony of warning."
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"It is better to be running after the truth and principles of God than to be running after miracles."
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"There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!"
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"Is there any certainty like the Truth?"
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"A distorted perspective of mankind is a terrible independence."
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"Deceptions and lies reign in a country where focus is on messages of miracles and wonders."
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"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."
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"When you live by understanding, you will not live in deception."
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"See? my mother would say, smiling at me and my sister, Carol, in turn. "We live in the greatest country on earth. See how lucky we are?And yet the ash continued swirling down, and the smells of death came through the windows, crept under the door, hung in our carpets and curtains, and screamed of her lie.Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?And if you lie to a liar, is the sin somehow negated or reversed?These are the kinds of questions I ask myself now: in these dark, watery hours, when night and day are interchangeable. No. Not true."
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"I do not see any beauty in self-restraint."
Beauty
"I love devils."
Love
"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."
Beginning
"One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep."
Interest
"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."
Now
"The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn."
World
"Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things."
Literature
"The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary."
Life
"I want to live quietly."
Want
"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."
Joy
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