"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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"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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