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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. ↗

— Mark Twain

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse. ↗

— Kurt Eisner

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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. ↗

— Tacitus

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The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. ↗

— David Bowie

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship. ↗

— Lincoln Diaz-Balart

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The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites. ↗

— David Duke

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The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. ↗

— Simone Weil

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