Top 100 Quotes About The Truth And Lies

#1. Whenever you get an appetite, you feed yourself. Therefore, fill your belly on wisdom of things old and new. Only swallow the truth, less you choke on the lies.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

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#2. Don't be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.

Dianna Hardy

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#3. I thought I'd won the match when she'd fallen into my arms, heart and all. The truth was, she'd beaten me. Snatched my soul and shattered all the lies I'd built around me to keep the pain of connecting at bay.

Lyla Payne

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#4. Control and violence that is best reflected in the state, are evil in themselves. In this knowledge lies the great truth of anarchism.

Nikolai A. Berdyaev

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#5. When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger.

T.F. Hodge

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#6. Sometimes the truth will hurt and a lie will set you free; just as a lie will hurt and the truth will set you free.

Anthony Liccione

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#7. A look into the Human Mind..of how we perceive..How can we see beauty in and around us..Not the correction of evil or pursuit of the virtuous..BUT..pleasure that resides in the Sense of Self !! A Self living in a state of 'nothingness' and beauty as it lies there..from that place! Simple and Deft

Abha Maryada Banerjee

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#8. But here's the thing: other people's opinions are not the truth. We live in a world that puts us into boxes and labels them with Sharpies, yet those boxes are lies. They flatten us; they limit who we really are. Feminism

Kelly Jensen

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#9. Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

Denis Johnston

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#10. Lies don't fit snugly into disguises. Eventually the cloak falls off and you're left staring at the naked truth which is always an uncomfortable situation.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#11. When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

Don Miguel Ruiz

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#12. I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people that lies are doors that opens up to truth. Either you accept the lie, or you run away from it, thus, eliminating the meaning behind it, and what is could have accomplished.

Lionel Suggs

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#13. Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn

Abbi Glines

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#14. But while God speaks truth to our hearts day by day, the enemy speaks lies to our minds constantly. And the way we manage our daily thoughts, determines which father we get our identity from.

Carlos A. Rodriguez

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#15. It is the dirt within men's hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

Jocelyn Murray

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#16. Truth almost always did come out in the end, but by the end, truth was often so wrapped around with rumors and speculation and absolute lies that most people never did believe it.

Robert Jordan

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#17. But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

Stephen Fry

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#18. According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.

Charles Francis Richter

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#19. The truth can seem awfully small and insignificant when compared to a mountain of lies.

Terry Goodkind

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#20. If we can accept the fact that we create illness, it follows naturally that we can also create wellness. And therein lies a most empowering nugget of truth and healing.

Liberty Forrest

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#21. What is fear?" she breathed. 'Fear is nothing. Fear is illusion. Pass through its fire. Truth lies at its core. What it Truth?" She stood up, feeling calmer and glared up at the sinking sun. "I am Truth," she whispered fiercely.

J.D. Lakey

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#22. Oh, I can't talk to you the way I've wanted to; I've been tellin' lies but I'll tell you the truth.
Darling, I'm tired and I should be leaving, leaving. You know I'm tired and I should be leaving, leaving tonight.

Richard Edwards

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#23. We have sneered at one another's weaknesses. Mine is insecurity. Tyler's is the truth.
And beneath it all lies attraction.

Estelle Maskame

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#24. The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Graham Greene

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#25. beneath the fragile and very human veneer of the organized churches of the world, there lies a truth so real and so pristine that all of man's concocted philosophical posings tumble into ruin beside it.

C.S. Lewis

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#26. It is perhaps accurate ... to describe the Daschle proposals as being 'Sex, Lies and No Videotape,' ... We insisted on a complete search for the truth, on the ability for the Senate to decide whether or not video presentations of these witnesses will be permitted on the floor of the Senate.

Slade Gorton

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#27. When my words are concealed
With lies and disguises, truth and beyond
Insecurities in the veil of trust
Betrayal in bounds of lies
It's just the charm of words darling
Giving the illusion of happiness inside misery

Irum Zahra

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#28. Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?
Maybe the lies are all that we've got
But aren't they beautiful?

Sarah Slean

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#29. If we sometimes lie and sometimes tell the truth, no one can be certain what they are hearing at any given time. Like yin and yang, truth and lies are inseparable, each containing a seed of the other, no words are ever entirely true or entirely untrue.

Chloe Thurlow

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#30. We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact.

Carl Sagan

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#31. The truth of who you are and what you believe is projected in your behavior. Everything else, either positive or negative, is a mix of stories, lies, delusions, and manipulations.

Steve Maraboli

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#32. Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country - to clear the air of the racial mirages, cliches, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.

Alex Haley

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#33. It's just, sometimes lies look so much like the truth. And when you can't tell between the two, how do you know which one will make you happy? Maybe the lie will make you happier. And if you're happier with the lie, would you really want to know the truth?

Cindi Madsen

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#34. A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of the truth, and then you give your heart to expressing it clearly.

Anne Lamott

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#35. Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

Alexei Panshin

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#36. We all tell lies to protect our solitude. We deny the truth and present a false image of ourselves to blend into society.

Saleem Haddad

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#37. Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her.

Hilaire Belloc

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#38. Love - Truth-seeking The strength of Truth lies in Love and the strength of Love lies in Truth.

Pandurang Shastri Athavale

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#39. I'm continually wrestling with the idea that there are certain things in this world that simply don't fit. The idea that I have this longing for beauty and truth, and yet I'm also attracted to things that are very dark the lies that exist within me and outside of me.

Jon Foreman

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#40. The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

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#41. I think the most important quality in a birdwatcher is a willingness to stand quietly and see what comes. Our everyday lives obscure a truth about existence - that at the heart of everything there lies a stillness and a light.

Lynn Thomson

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#42. According to my dermatologist, the neck starts to go at forty-three, and that's that ... The neck is a dead give-away. Our faces are lies and our necks are the truth. You have to cut open a redwood tree to see how old it is, but you wouldn't have to if it had a neck.

Nora Ephron

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#43. Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.

George R R Martin

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#44. Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."
The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels?

Sarah MacLean

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#45. We don't lie to protect the other person. We lie to protect ourselves from the consequences. We lie because we don't want to deal with our own feelings. We lie because we don't want things to change. Not by our hand. So a wall starts to build.

Elisa Marie Hopkins

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#46. If you're defending a lie, you can only defend it with obfuscations and other lies. You can't defend a lie with the truth.

Harvey Bialy

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#47. The motive force of history is truth and not lies.

Leon Trotsky

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#48. I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.
And buried.

Simona Panova

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#49. What is truth? The negation of lies? Or the statement of a fact? And if the fact is a lie, what then is the truth?

Andrzej Sapkowski

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#50. Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.

Lily Tomlin

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#51. Truth is like beauty; it lies in the mind of the beholder

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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#52. In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

Dean Koontz

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#53. Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.

Khalil

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#54. Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.

Jacqueline Carey

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#55. They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.

Jeff Lindsay

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#56. The terrible crumple and blanch of a lie come undone ...

Ann Patchett

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#57. The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

Joseph Conrad

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#58. That is how it is with lies. If you can have enough people believe your lies, before you know it, even the one you have lied against will be confused. The lie will make itself at home and the truth will be knocking outside its own door.

Yvette Christianse

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#59. To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

James Russell Lowell

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#60. Sometimes love is nothing more than a sticky web; illusions spun from clever minds and bitter hearts.

Nicole Lyons

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#61. Lies are served like a fine delicacy. But beware, the truth of it all will sour, lodge in your throat, and choke your very existence if you continue to believe them.

Jason E. Hodges

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#62. God's followers need to know the truth He sets forth in His Word so that we can confidently discern between His truth and Satan's lies.

Billy Graham

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#63. I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.

Cormac McCarthy

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#64. To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature.

Gao Xingjian

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#65. The problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

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#66. The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

Yehudi Menuhin

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#67. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

Donald James

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#68. The ancients say that one note of a song is twenty times more powerful than a single word, and that only in song can truth be clearly perceived, for though words can harbor lies, music cannot abide them.

Nicole Evelina

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#69. People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

Don Miguel Ruiz

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#70. Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

Alveda King

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#71. There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.

Hannah Arendt

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#72. So sophisticated and smart, but our eyes tell us lies, or at best the truth in part.

Chris Murphy

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#73. If there is the truth to be told to the young, is the truth of not to lie.

Auliq Ice

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#74. The secret is not to think, we think in words. And what lies beyond the reality we see is a truth that words can't contain, the secret is to feel.

Dean Koontz

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#75. The newest truth about truth lies in the truth that human truths can lie, when they are parts-of-the-truth.
Call them 'white-lies' or 'black-truths', they are both true and a lie.

Caesar J. B. Squitti

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#76. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.

William Peter Blatty

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#77. Truth, she believed, lies in what is said as much as in what isn't, in the same way that a melody not only is a sequence of audible notes but encompasses the spaces and pauses in between. When listening to music, you must learns to take in even the atmosphere of an echo.

Vaddey Ratner

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#78. To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.

Val Edward Simone

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#79. Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

D.H. Lawrence

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#80. Pretty soon, I'll be decomposing into phosphorous, calcium, and so on. Who else will you find to tell you the truth? All that's left are the archives. Pieces of paper. And the truth is... I worked at an archive myself, I can tell you first hand: paper lies even more than people do.

Svetlana Alexievich

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#81. I have only ever known Guilt to have one weakness, one not easily given and not easily found: Forgiveness ... In truth, Guilt's strength lies not in the failure of others to grant us forgiveness, but in our failure to forgive ourselves.

Kelseyleigh Reber

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#82. If I assume the 'truth' to be negotiable based on whether or not it serves my agenda, then my agenda has become my 'truth.' And the 'truth' of the matter is, when I do this I've chosen to take a treacherous path through some very deep woods where neither path nor woods exist.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#83. He was no martyr. He was no hero But in the last two years, selfishness gave way to selflessness, lies gave way to truth and indulgence gave way to spirituality, and anyone watching that couldn't help but be moved by it.

Lex Lasry

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#84. Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it.

Shannon L. Alder

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#85. How could a woman know that you meant nothing that you said; that you spoke only from habit and to be comfortable? After he no longer meant what he said, his lies were more successful with women than when he had told them the truth.

Ernest Hemingway,

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#86. The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#87. A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth

Rudyard Kipling

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#88. How do we keep convincing young people to die in fights they didn't start for reasons we're too devious to tell the truth about? It's way too easy for governments to spend other people's blood. Maybe only the sons and daughters of those who declare the wars should be allowed to fight and die.

Dan Groat

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#89. The most harmful lies and the most hurtful, always contain a grain of truth," he said. "But nevertheless, lies they do remain.

Robin Jarvis

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#90. When we come out of agreement with lies and have our minds renewed to the truth, demons can be removed. Once we've found a person who is willing to be set free, the demons we are shown can be dealt with.

Praying Medic

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#91. Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.

Gunter Grass

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#92. Let's live to believe leaving all lies behind

Munia Khan

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#93. When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.

Mariah Carey

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#94. Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right.
"The common good and the individual good rarely coincide ... "
Sure, I know, it's true.
But some truths are probably worse than lies.

Sergei Lukyanenko

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#95. Everything I show you is the truth-And the truth is the loveliest of lies.

Richard Alan Simmons

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#96. I wanted to clear all the lies and let the truth come out. I have hate crawling through my system.

Aileen Wuornos

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#97. You can't walk till the end on an active railway line and you can't walk till the end on the road of lies, because sooner or later you collide with the truth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#98. The Western rhetoric of appeasement creates a self-reinforcing loop of mental and moral corruption. Speaking the truth now would mean confessing to many months of lies

Garry Kasparov

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#99. There are gods and there are true knights too. All the stories can't be lies.

George R R Martin

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#100. That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities.

Isabel Allende

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