"Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion."

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"Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion."

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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act."

Thomas Jane, American Actor

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"I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think."

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"The New is not a fashion, it is a value."

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"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."

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"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."

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"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive."

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"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."

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"To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished."

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"What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself."

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"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."

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"Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it."

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