Doris Lessing's Quote - It is terrible to destroy a persons picture of himself in the inte

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It is terrible to destroy a persons picture of himself in the inte

It is terrible to destroy a persons picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. – Doris Lessing

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When theres a war, people get married. – Doris Lessing

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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. – Doris Lessing

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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. – Doris Lessing

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth. – Marcus Aurelius

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. – Abu Bakr

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Theres a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. – Maya Angelou

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