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“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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“on the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth showing through.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. 'Mythomania' is the word for it.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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“The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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“I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

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“And Credulity, because men love to be hearkened unto in company, disposeth them to lying: so that Ignorance it selfe without Malice, is able to make a man bothe to believe lyes, and tell them; and sometimes also to invent them.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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“The lie made into the rule of the world.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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“A lie by day, a lie by night, a lie in every touch and every look; a lie in every caress and every quarrel; a lie in every word and in every silence.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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