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“Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.”
Aristotle
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
Galileo Galilei
“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”
Anais Nin
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes”
Mark Twain
“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”
“Live truth instead of professing it.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.”
Jim Morrison
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
Virginia Woolf
“A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth”
Will Rogers
“A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.”
Maya Angelou