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Truth Quotes
"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."
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"Telling lies is a really terrible thing. These days, lies and silence are the two greatest sins in human society you might say. In reality, we tell lots of lies, and we often break into silence. However, if we were constant;y talking year-round, and telling only the truth truth would probably lose some of its value."
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"A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead."
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"See? my mother would say, smiling at me and my sister, Carol, in turn. "We live in the greatest country on earth. See how lucky we are?And yet the ash continued swirling down, and the smells of death came through the windows, crept under the door, hung in our carpets and curtains, and screamed of her lie.Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?And if you lie to a liar, is the sin somehow negated or reversed?These are the kinds of questions I ask myself now: in these dark, watery hours, when night and day are interchangeable. No. Not true."
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"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth."
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"Here was an absolutely compelling road sign. Stay on the road of objective truth - there is objective being and objective value. Stay on the road. There is Truth. There is a Point and Purpose and Essence to it all. Keep searching. You will find it."
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"The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all."
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"We can't even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending."
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"A truth can never be borrowed. It has to be discovered."
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"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
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"He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower."
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"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
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"It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division."
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"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."
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"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."
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"Behavior slays the dragon of illusion and reveals the truth."
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"Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional."
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"Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it."
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"Sometimes what is said to be a gift may appear more of a curse only because the greatest gifts of all are the gifts that have enough disruptive force to break us out of everything that's breaking us. And God loves us far too much not to give us exactly those kinds of gifts."
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"Until we realize that things might not be, we cannot realize that things are. Until we see the background of darkness, we cannot admire the light as a single and created thing. As soon as we have seen that darkness, all light is lightening, sudden, blinding, and divine. Until we picture nonentity we underrate the victory of God, and can realize none of the trophies of His ancient war. It is one of the million wild jests of truth that we know nothing until we know nothing."
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"Truth as a time coordinate; truth lives in the past, the future is uncertain.Truth as a scale coordinate; truth lives in the macro world, the micro world is uncertain.Truth lives in the macro past and uncertainty lives in the micro future."
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"Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false."
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"You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope."
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"What is the nature of the border between truth and lies? It is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with rumour, confabulation, misunderstandings and twisted tales. Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door."
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"Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth."
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"You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it."
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"No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well."
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