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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

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“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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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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“If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

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“Facts mean truth, and once we adhere to truth, the law comes to our aid naturally.”

― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

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