"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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"There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie."

Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

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"Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true."

Elias Canetti, Swiss Author

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"I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette."

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"Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."

Sarah Brady, American Activist

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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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"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"A lie never lives to be old."

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

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"Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula."

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"For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture."

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

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"I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient."

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"The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!"

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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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