The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. [...] The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.
Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?
Fact and fiction are different truths.
Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.
Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosions and death above a city skyline are a peculiar and effective form of communication? They have mastered the language.
There must be repressed truth even in lies.
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.
False judges are held up in the world’s admiration and I alone know the true ones.
Sing and rejoice ye children of the day and the light; for the Lord is at work in this thick night of darkness that may be felt: and the Truth doth flourish as the rose, and lilies do grow among the thorns and the plants atop the hills, and upon them the lambs doth skip and play.
I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism.
Aye me, how many perils do enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And steadfast truth acquite him out of all.
Thoreau was an idiot.
You are going to die like a dog for no good reason
If words are the truth, what is living for?
This life is our shared dream. We all may meet again in reality.
Tudo parecia organizado da melhor forma possĂvel, como se de fato o mundo constasse somente de palavras, como se assim o prĂłprio horror fosse trazido para dimensões seguras, como se para cada aspecto de uma coisa houvesse um reverso, para cada mal um bem, para cada dissabor um prazer, para cada infelicidade uma felicidade e para cada mentira um quinhĂŁo de verdade.
The striving of humanity for knowledge and truth [can] not be suppressed. The growth of the spirit [is]an essential part of Creation; it was planned like the growth of the body, of the plants and animals and people - every living thing that God had created.
Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations. When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters.
