"Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks."

Truth, Speech, Honesty, Silence

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"Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind."

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J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

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"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"You have nothing to lose, only to live."

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