"The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary."

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"The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary."

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

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

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Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."

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"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

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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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"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little."

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"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently."

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