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Truth Quotes
"The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV."
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"For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies."
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"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light."
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"Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it."
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"A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender."
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"There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one."
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"It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases."
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"The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story."
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"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously."
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"Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie."
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"The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself."
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"I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves."
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"There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them."
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"Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth."
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"I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them."
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"Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none."
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"For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth."
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"It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth."
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"I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction."
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"In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds."
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"He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it."
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"Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them."
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"It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness."
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"Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth."
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