"The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify."
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"Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie."
"Truth is the best defense."
"You can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant."
"The truth is an anagram of an anagram."
"All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole."
"Truth is a matter of the imagination."
"Truth is the summit of being."
"The greatest homage to truth is to use it."
"Truth is scary. Truth has bad breath at times"
"The richness of a moment comes when it's both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness."
"The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time."
"This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed."
"The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions."
"If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"
"Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence ."
"Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie."
"The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with."
"Unfortunately, the truth is that people do go scot-free and it's unfair. A lot of the top drug people who have been arrested are also free."
"The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism."