It is not enough to speak but to speak truth
It is not your fault you believe what your parents tell you. It is theirs for telling you unbelievable things. -- ME
The important thing is not to lie to yourself. He who lies to himself and listens to his own lies reaches a state in which he no longer recognizes truth either in himself or in others, and so he cease...
Lies are taught by force, truth is taught by choice.
why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?
He who loves lies suffers from no disease than lies! He who believes in and acts upon lies suffers from no disease than ignorance!
Lies can open up the doors to imagination.
Initially, the truth may hurt, but lies hurt always.
You’re such a great liar when you lie to yourself.
That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart.
If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.
If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, c...
I believe his lies, so he believes mine.' She turns and looks at me straight on. 'That's how it goes at the end of love.
But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires.
Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
All right, said Susan. I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... to make life bearable.REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE F...
The heart never lies
If you cannot lie, tell a different truth.
A person who lies for you can lie to you too.
A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living.