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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. – Hannah Arendt

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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. – Hannah Arendt

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses. – Hannah Arendt

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes. – Hannah Arendt

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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. – Jim Rohn

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For truth is always strange stranger than fiction. – Lord Byron

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