"I am a lie who always speaks the truth."

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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"You have nothing to lose, only to live."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"There are Christians who have never really learned the biblical truth of separation: separation from unclean thoughts and unclean habits."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."

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"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"

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"The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood."

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"You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive."

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"Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture."

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"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."

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"In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator."

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"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."

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"When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work."

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"Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie."

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