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"It's not a lie if you don't tell the truth.But it's fucked up if you falsify the fact."
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"Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence."
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Personal Development
"I do not say words, which you want to hear.The words just told me, to write them down."
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"They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth."
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Personal Development
"I don't think there's anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn't fashionable."
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Personal Development
"Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him."
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"I never see the color of a person. I never notice the color of their eyes. But the thing that always gets my attention. Is when the spout out lies."
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Personal Development
"Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve."
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"Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble."
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"I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love."
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"I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives."
Humanity
"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
Desire
"I must get my soul back from you, I am killing my flesh without it."
Soul
"The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of starsLetting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things."
Nature
"So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough."
Productivity
"The human mind is so limited it can only build an arbitrary heaven - and usually the physical comforts they endow it with are naively the kind that can be perceived as we humans perceive - nothing more. No: perhaps I will awake to find myself burning in hell. I think not. I think I will be snuffed out. Black is sleep; black is a fainting spell; and black is death, with no light, no waking."
Spiritual
"Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled "enemy?"
Morality
"A man's world is different from a woman's world and a man's emotions are different from a woman's emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly."
Marriage
"We fitted, amusingly enough, into none of the form categories of 'The Young American Couple'... security to us is in ourselves, and no job, not even money, can give us what we have to develop: faith in our work and hard, hard work, which is Spartan in many ways."
Work
"This boy - his name was Eric - said he thought it disgusting the way all the girls at my college stood around on the porches under the porch lights and in the bushes in plain view, necking madly before the one o'clock curfew, so everybody passing by could see them. A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals."
Society
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