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I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have neve

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person. – Martha Gellhorn

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After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat. – Martha Gellhorn

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Faith
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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. – Martha Gellhorn

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Truth
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To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. – Henri Bergson

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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. – G. K. Chesterton

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Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak. – Anon.

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