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- Forgiveness does not create a relationship. Unless people speak the truth about what they have done and change their mind and behavior, a relationship of trust is not possible. When you forgive someone you certainly release them from judgment, but without true change, no real relationship can be established.
(W. Paul Young, "The Shack")
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- The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "The Razor's Edge")
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- All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
(Wally Lamb, "She's Come Undone")
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- Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.
(Walter M. Miller Jr, "A Canticle for Leibowitz")
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- This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.
(Willa Cather, "My Ántonia")
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- And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
(William Faulkner, "Light in August")
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- I'll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.
(William Goldman, "The Princess Bride")
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- When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.
(William Goldman, "The Princess Bride")
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- I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.
(Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Left Hand of Darkness")
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- One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies...
(Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Left Hand of Darkness")
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- Truth is a matter of the imagination.
(Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Left Hand of Darkness")
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- In all Thénardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosion of an evil nature brazenly exposed, the mixture of bravado and abjectness, arrogance, pettiness, rage, absurdity; the hodgepodge of genuine distress, and lying sentiment, the shamelessness of a vicious man rejoicing in viciousness, the bare crudity of an ugly soul -- in this eruption of all suffering and hatred there was something which was hideous as evil itself and still as poignant as truth.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles of giant weeds, over sun-flickered spaces and on and on into gloom, cold, deep, inscrutable; suddenly she shoots to the surface and sports on the wind-wrinkled waves; that is, has a positive need to brush, scrape, kindle herself, gossiping.
(Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway")
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- He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.
(Virginia Woolf, "To the Lighthouse")
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