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"Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity."
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"Living honestly is a prerequisite for a clear conscience."
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"You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running."
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"People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked. The man who lies to the world, is the world's slave from then on. There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all."
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"A legendary horse is praised not for its strength, but for its Integrity."
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"Dimitri is dead," she said. It was a statement, not a question, but she was looking to me for confirmation. I wondered if I'd given away something, some hint that there was still more to the story. Or maybe she just needed the certainty of those words. And for a moment, I considered telling them that Dimitri was dead. It was what the Academy would tell them, what the guardians would tell them. It would be easier on them...but somehow, I couldn't stand to lie to them-even if it was a comforting lie. Dimitri would have wanted the whole truth, and his family would too. "No," I said, and for a heartbeat, hope sprang up in everyone's faces-at least until I spoke again. "Dimitri's a Strigoi."
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"Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others."
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"Well, whose opinion did you take? "I don't ask for opinions." "What do you go by?"Judgment. "Well, whose judgment did you take? "Mine. "But whom did you consult about it?". "Nobody."
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"It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."
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"No crime is so great as daring to excel."
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"Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else's."
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"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
Poetry
"I would rather start a family than finish one."
Family
"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."
People
"I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."
Family
"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience."
Experience
"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."
Age
"Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into."
Prohibition
"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."
Blame
"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."
Progress
"Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity."
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