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Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last yo...

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Leo TolstoyThe Kreutzer Sonata

Este incredibil cât de completă este iluzia care ne face să credem că frumuseţea este în genere bună...

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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before ...

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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

Embracing the LightCollected bits of truthShimmering sparksShards of lightMergeHealingRestoringBurst...

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They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat...

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They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen...

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What I tell you three times is true.

Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our exi...

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One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take t...

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They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you...

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Libba BrayA Great and Terrible Beauty

I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, ...

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Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that a...

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Just remember that when nobody else was there for you I was.And when nobody else gave a damn I did.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo...

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Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejecti...

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The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Li...

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Is a man truly what he see himself to be?''Only if what he sees is true.

If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.

She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.

He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.

It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly ...

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There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is i...

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Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bibl...

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It doesn't have any effect on your life. What do you care?! People try to talk about it like it's a ...

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It doesn't have any effect on your life. What do you care?! People try to talk about it like it's a ...

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It doesn't have any effect on your life. What do you care?! People try to talk about it like it's a ...

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It doesn't have any effect on your life. What do you care?! People try to talk about it like it's a ...

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I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in...

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Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over...

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Louis de BroglieNouvelles perspectives en microphysique

And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth ...

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Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles....

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Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to d...

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Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

They're all the same-- the cop, the criminal, the defense, the prosecutor-- they all share a fundame...

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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple trut...

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence

The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.

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Ludwig WittgensteinTractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Why are you so anxious to destroy in the name of a vulgar, commonplace sense of truth, this reality ...

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Luigi PirandelloSix Characters in Search of an Author

Even today, I've no idea what the truth is, or what I did with it.

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Luis BuñuelMy Last Sigh

People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Trut...

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We want them to see their home planet," Mrs. Whatsit said. The Medium lost the delighted smile she h...

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But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them.—Ditta

The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only de...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

We were so little when you took away all our sins.

It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts.

Annie looks dreamy, but she always does because she can’t see farther than three feet away. Elizabet...

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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There...

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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error ...

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My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent...

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Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the s...

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God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it...

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God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It i...

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Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reach...

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My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realis...

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Truth resides in every human heart,and one has to search for it there,and to be guided by truth as o...

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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have ...

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Mahatma GandhiThe Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, b...

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Mahatma GandhiThe Story of My Experiments With Truth

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the ey...

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Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less...

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MaimonidesThe Guide for the Perplexed

But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you d...

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With my sort of book there's no resolution, because there's no solution. The problems aren't answere...

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The Consul looked at the sun. But he had lost the sun: it was not his sun. Like the truth, it was we...

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Malcolm LowryUnder the Volcano

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the ...

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Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the ...

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I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.

Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the rea...

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When Pope Pius XII died, LIFE magazine carried a picture of him in his private study kneeling before...

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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a hu...

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The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific g...

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Malcolm XMalcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the rea...

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I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda… I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X

I put down my cup and examine my own mind. It is for it to discover the truth. But how? What an abys...

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We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.

Monsieur Beulier never engaged in thought except to speak the truth, and never spoke except to expre...

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In the case of Albertine, I felt that I should never discover anything, that, out of that tangled ma...

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... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth...

In Swann's mind, however, these words, meeting no opposition, settled and hardened until they assume...

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Swann could at once detect in this story one of those fragments of literal truth which liars, when t...

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We would like the truth to be revealed to us by novel signs, not by a sentence, a sentence similar t...

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change...

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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I see...

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