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“Excuses will always be made, and blame will always fall on the other. Though the truth is before you, your own love will forever blind you from it. I will not lose you just to prove a point, nor to shatter your heart with the reality before you. Instead I will smile. I will live. I will accept that it just is. I do not do this for them, but I will do it for you. I will do it because I love you." - from an untitled script”
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“The truth will set us free. But freedom is cold and empty and frightening, and lies can often be warm and beautiful.”
― Dreamsongs, Volume I
― Dreamsongs, Volume I
“Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.”
― The 48 Laws of Power
― The 48 Laws of Power
“There's a difference between loneliness and solitude.”
― The Geography of You and Me
― The Geography of You and Me
“People can't hear anything except when it's nonsense. Then they hear every word. If you try to talk sense, they think you don't mean it, or don't know anything anyway, or it's not true, or it's against religion, or it's not what they are used to reading in the newspapers...”
― Ship of Fools
― Ship of Fools
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