"When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth."

Truth, Man

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"When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth."

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"The fact differentiates the fake."

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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."

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"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."

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"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."

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"My truth could be very different than your truth."

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"Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more."

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"It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist

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"There is no failure in life. It is only an experience."

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"This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error."

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