"The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things."
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"The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly."
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"We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee."
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"The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it. It is one of those paths to the centre."
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"People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened."
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"Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil."
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"Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars."
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"Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth."
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"Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love"
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"Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to. To the degree that she trusts her male companion, lying and other forms of betrayal will most likely shatter her self-confidence and self-esteem."
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"I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I've always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies."
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"The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain."
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"Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free."
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"There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch."
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"But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video. Where I came from, they call that a lie."
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"I said Ted Cruz has been lying because if you say something that isn't true, and you say it over and over again, and you know that it's not true, there's no other word for it."
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"But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength."
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"The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author."
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"Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be."
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"The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness."
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