"There is a kind of truth in a well-told lie. When we look back, we don't see things as they were but how we would like them to have been."

Truth, Lies, Perception, Memory

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"There is a kind of truth in a well-told lie. When we look back, we don't see things as they were but how we would like them to have been."

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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."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Truth,

"So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Truth, Disconnection, Life, Lost, Existence

"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."

Thomas Mann, German Writer

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"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."

Stephen King, American Author

Truth, Drugs, Creativity, Myth

"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"

Stephen King, American Author

Truth, Fear, Imagination, Curiosity

"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us."

Stephen King, American Author

Truth, Fear, Wealth, Loss, Nature

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

Thomas Mann, German Writer

Truth, Lie

"Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Truth, Habit, Addiction, Memory, Change

"It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Truth, Argument, Faith, Reason

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"When you succumb to obedience, in an erotic sense, you are not giving away a part of yourself, but seeking something new, something other, within yourself."

Exploration

"After making love there is nothing like making love, slowly, idly, like walking without a destination, or swimming in a warm sea."

Romance

"It is in the nest of disappointment where depression lays its eggs."

Emotion

"There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something."

Ambition

"Depression comes from not accepting the way things are - and seeing no way too change them."

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"The moment he left the warm sheets and the door clicked shut, I had that feeling you get when you are lost in a strange town at night. I curled into the chair where he had watched me undress and tears wet my cheeks. Then I dried my eyes, I looked in the mirror, and I said these two words. Never again."

Loss

"The erotic is not about nudity and nudity is rarely erotic. The erotic is subtle, a feeling, a gesture, a mood, a story frozen in the moment that holds you breathless waiting for the next moment. Understand this, and you understand the erotic."

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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."

"So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him."

"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."

"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."

"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"

"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us."

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

"Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom."

"It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth."

Explore more quotes by Chloe Thurlow

"When you succumb to obedience, in an erotic sense, you are not giving away a part of yourself, but seeking something new, something other, within yourself."

"After making love there is nothing like making love, slowly, idly, like walking without a destination, or swimming in a warm sea."

"It is in the nest of disappointment where depression lays its eggs."

"There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something."

"When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly."

"Sex is about anticipation not culmination."

"Good writing like good sex requires discipline."

"Depression comes from not accepting the way things are - and seeing no way too change them."

"The erotic is not about nudity and nudity is rarely erotic. The erotic is subtle, a feeling, a gesture, a mood, a story frozen in the moment that holds you breathless waiting for the next moment. Understand this, and you understand the erotic."