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"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."
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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

"What is the nature of the border between truth and lies? It is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with rumour, confabulation, misunderstandings and twisted tales. Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door."

"Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy."

"In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled."
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"Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom."


"Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility."


"What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality."


"We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark."
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