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“It is much easier to believe lies than the truth." "Why?" asked Janna. "Because lies are manufactured to satisfy the emotions. A mother would rather believe her pretty girl lazy than accept the fac...”
“Since i was born, i have realized that; all things that people do in this world are mostly based on the lies of their grand grand parents.”
“Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.”
“A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths.”
“Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot ...”
“There must be repressed truth even in lies.”
“Time turns our lies into truths.”
“Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. "Almost" always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible.”
“I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.”
“I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good when really it's for there own good.”
“...inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.”
“Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?Maybe the lies are all that we've gotBut aren't they beautiful?”
“World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.”
“The truth hurt more than lies.”
“Lies and partial truths complicate life.”
“I am stuffing your mouth with yourpromises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.”
“Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?And if you lie to a liar, is the sun somehow negated or reversed?”
“Because weve been lied to and lied to, and it hurts to be lied to. Its ultimately just about that complicated: it hurts. It denies you respect for yourself, for the liar, for the world. Especially ...”
“One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.”
“Lying," he said out loud, hoping no one would hear. "I need to lie. Teach me, quickly."I wouldn't if I were you, came the response. For a start, it's a variable concept here. You are in a culture w...”
