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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It canno

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Tragedy is like strong acid – it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. – David Herbert Lawrence

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. – Umberto Eco

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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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A truth thats told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. – William Blake

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