#truth

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

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Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#reading #truth #read

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#makes #nervous #people #sad #sad truth

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

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For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth. ↗

— John Amery

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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful. ↗

— Sherwood Anderson

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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#fact #hear #opinion #perspective #see

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. ↗

— Richard Bach

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