"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
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"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
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"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love."
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"I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun."
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
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"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
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"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
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"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
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"The truth. Dumbledore sighed. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
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"Many a year I told her tales. And then the time came for me to watch. And watch I have."
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"A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven."
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"I was a young impressionable 13 year old hearing the pro-left and pro-right argument. So one day I would be convinced that one side was right. the other day I would be convinced the other side was right. And then I was getting confused. How can both of these things be true if they were contrary to each other. So I decided to focus on a field where the truth didn't dependent upon the eloquence of the speaker. The truth was absolute."
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"You should never use propaganda to teach kids the truth."
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"Why would you tell us the truth? If Christina really wasn’t here, you’d tell us she was, to stall us from finding her. If James taught us one thing, it’s how to detect a lie. You just want us to leave so you can get her to talk. By the way, good luck with that -- Ida can’t even get her to admit that she stole her cousin’s candy at Halloween last year. And that was pretty obvious."
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"The Chinese poet George Wu ... recorded on his comlog: "Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become." Later, on his last disk to his lover the week before he died, Wu said: "Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers."
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"Just look what happens to poets," I used to tell my honors class on the first day of school. "Half the time they go mad. And you know why I think that happens? Too much truth distilled to its essence, all surrounding evidence ignored or discarded. And I'm not faulting them for that."
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"This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love."
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