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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.”
― Mark Twain, On the Decay of the Art of Lying

“The man who speaks an injurious truth lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving. The”
― Mark Twain, On the Decay of the Art of Lying

“There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms