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    I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
    “I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: truth
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
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  • #6
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: books, reading, truth
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  • #7
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: gratitude, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, kindness, life, life-and-living, life-quotes, living-life, mindful, mindfulness, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, truth
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  • #8
    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
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  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: truth
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    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling
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  • #11
    Flannery O'Connor
    “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: truth
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  • #12
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: truth, values
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  • #13
    “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
    ― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
    tags: hope, inspiration, inspirational, life, truth
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  • #14
    John Lennon
    “The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, life, perception, truth
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  • #15
    Virginia Woolf
    “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth
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  • #16
    Benjamin Disraeli
    “There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    tags: attributed-no-source, lies, lying, misattributed-mark-twain, statistics, truth
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    Thomas Merton
    “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
    ― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
    tags: friendship, love, self-discovery, trust, truth
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  • #18
    William Blake
    “A truth that's told with bad intent
    Beats all the lies you can invent.”
    ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
    tags: lies, logic, philosophy, religion, truth
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  • #19
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld
    tags: cynical, life, truth
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  • #20
    Robert Orben
    “Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
    ― Robert Orben
    tags: humour, politics, truth
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  • #21
    Michelle Hodkin
    “Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.”
    ― Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
    tags: inspirational-quotes, mara-dyer, reality, truth
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  • #22
    David Foster Wallace
    “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: freedom, truth
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  • #23
    Edward Abbey
    “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
    ― Edward Abbey
    tags: truth
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  • #24
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
    tags: acceptance, being-loved, love, marriage, relationships, truth
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: authors, good-books, truth, writers
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  • #26
    Markus Zusak
    “Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: truth
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  • #27
    Hayley Williams
    “Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
    ― Hayley Williams
    tags: falling, knowing, lesson-on-living, life, paramore, singer, stand, success, truth, understanding
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  • #28
    Tim O'Brien
    “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
    ― Tim O'Brien
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, stories, truth, writing
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  • #29
    George R.R. Martin
    “People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: human-nature, people, truth
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  • #30
    Malcolm X
    “I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: activism, truth
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