"To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself."

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"To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself."

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"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."

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"The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself."

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"The limit of every pain is an even greater pain."

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"To act is to anchor in the imminent future."

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"For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion."

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"Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?"

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"God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays."

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"Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off."

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"I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers."

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"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."

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"I keep reading between the lies."

Goodman Ace, American Writer

Lie, Lies, Reading

"A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically."

Diane Ackerman, American Poet

Lie, Emotions, Language, Moods

"Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it."

James Agee, American Novelist

Lie, Adventure, Luck, Play

"Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance."

Tom Allen, American Politician

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"The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars."

David Antin, American Poet

Lie, Man, Myth, Name

"I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I."

Roone Arledge, American Journalist

Lie, Network, News, Past