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"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."
Society
"Ideas are fatal to caste."
Creativity
"No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour."
Man
"We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand."
Politics
"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
Love
"Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety."
Religion
"England has always been disinclined to accept human nature."
Nature
"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
Books
"People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness."
Death
"Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient."
Communication
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"I know when you say a lie... and now I bet 200$ that you lie."
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"True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then it looks to unpeel us."
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"Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also -- either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths."
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"With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth."
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"While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea."
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"When a hypocrite or a wicked leader is in power, anyone that becomes popular or stands out easily becomes a prey."
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"Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies."
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"If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie."
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"I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence."
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"In Swann's mind, however, these words, meeting no opposition, settled and hardened until they assumed the indestructibility of a truth so indubitable that, if some friend happened to tell him that he had come by the same train and had not seen Odette, Swann would have been convinced that it was his friend who had made a mistake as to the day or hour, since his version did not agree with the words uttered by Odette. These words had never appeared to him false except when, before hearing them, he had suspected that they were going to be. For him to believe that she was lying, and anticipatory suspicion was indispensable."
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