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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
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    “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
    ― Walter Langer
    tags: lies, paraphrased
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    Veronica Roth
    “Lies require commitment.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: lies
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    André Malraux
    “Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
    ― André Malraux
    tags: deception, hiding, lies, man, secrets, self-awareness
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    Thomas Harris
    “When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
    tags: hannibal, murder
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    Criss Jami
    “Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”
    ― Criss Jami
    tags: aggravation, concealment, confusion, contemplation, dishonesty, hardcore, honesty, lie, lying, never, pain, provoke, secrecy, secrets, thinkers, thought, torture, truth
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    Thomas Hardy
    “At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then--I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go--possibly to Arabella again--and so I got to love you, Jude. But you see, however fondly it ended, it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
    tags: craving, cruel, deception, flirting, heartbreaker, heartbroken, love, lying, selfish, sue-bridehead
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: power, sex
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education-knowledge
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Nikola Tesla
    “If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.”
    ― Nikola Tesla
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: basil-hallward
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    Daniel Kahneman
    “A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
    ― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
    tags: psychology, science, social-behavior
    930 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing
    5987 likes

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  • #17
    Tim O'Brien
    “I survived, but it's not a happy ending.”
    ― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
    tags: happy-ending, life, survival
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: desire, love
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: boredom, life
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  • #25
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • #26
    Jim Jarmusch
    “Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."

    [MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]”
    ― Jim Jarmusch
    tags: authenticity, context, creative-process, creativity, imitation, inspiration, originality, postmodernism, rules, sense-of-wonder, sources, transformation
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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    627 likes

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  • #29
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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