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“Im just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody elses. Im sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. Its disgusting.”
“Love truth, but pardon error.”
“Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.”
“Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.”
“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
“The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies”
“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
“I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerabl...”
“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yours...”
“Boredom: the desire for desires.”
“The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.”
“Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don't know yourself very well, you might even believ...”
“When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.”
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
“Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.”
“Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.”
“The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”
“You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days its made out of. Nothin else.”
