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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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"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."
"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
"A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas."
"Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion."
"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."
"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."
"When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else."
"The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit."
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"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."
"Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance."
"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."
"Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature."
"Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?"
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