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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
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Feeling does not succeed in converting consolation into truth, nor does reason succeed in converting truth into consolation.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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So I never doubted that ultimately we were going to be free, because ultimately, I knew there was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth, darkness over light, death over life.
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He was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
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The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
from the book "" by Herman Melville
Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.
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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: reason and right.
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Frankness and truth were reflected on her brow, like flowers in the clearest pool.
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