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Maurice Maeterlinck

"A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods."

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"A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods."

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"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth."

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"A lie is a lieeven if everyone believes it."

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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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"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."

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

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

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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."

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

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"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."

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"The words of truth are simple."

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"They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors."
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