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“People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.”
“It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.”
“El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho.”
“Dont talk like that, Dill, said Aunt Alexandra. Its not becoming to a child. Its cynical.I aint cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin the truths not cynical, is it?The way you tell it, it is.”
“The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.”
“If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.”
“There is no truth," Stephanie said mysterously. "Only perspectives.”
“A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.”
“All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go...”
“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, ...”
“Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.”
“The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have t...”
“I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.”
“Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.”
“I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.”
“Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.”
“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives”
“A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.”
“You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?”
“Kumikirot ang tyan? Kumikirot ang ulo? Correlation? I therefore conclude na ang utak ay parang tyan, sumasakit kapag walang laman.”