"The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's a home."
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"Art lies by its own artifice."
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"Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body."
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"Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature."
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"The key to enlightenment lies in a secret that very few people have ever known, but which Jesus knew well. The way you will experience and feel about yourself is not determined by how other people look at and think about you."
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"What's so great thing about clothes is that they're artificial - you can lie, you can choose the way you look, which is not true of natural beauty. So if you're naturally beautiful, wear what you want, but that's 01% of people. Most people just aren't good looking enough to wear what they have on. They should change. They should get some slacks and a nice overcoat. Remember when the style was incredibly messy hair? That's great if you're a model. But if you're not a model, you would look better if you washed your hair, because you are not beautiful."
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"The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It's not that they feel that what you don't know won't hurt you; they feel that what you don't know won't hurt them. To the French lying is simply talking."
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"I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars."
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"But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality."
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"Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us."
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"Lies are essential to humanity."
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"Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient"
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"you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction"
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"It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water."
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"There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious."
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"It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt."
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"I would like to be remembered not as anyone unique or special, but as part of a great team in this country that has struggled for many years, for decades and even centuries. The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall."
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"And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be praised or not blamed; but when they cannot, and wish to do it anyway, here lies the error and the blame."
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"He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit."
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"Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth."
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