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Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

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You go to the Place of the Lie to find out the truth?

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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

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What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we have is here, now.

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[T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.

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Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.

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A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

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I never thought before,” said Tirin unruffled, “of the fact that there are people sitting on a hill, up there, on Urras, looking at Anarres, at us, an...more

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If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.

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I think we shall have trouble learning how to lie, having for so long practiced the art of going round and round the truth without ever lying about it...more

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The unknown," said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, "the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. ...more

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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

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It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself, There...more

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Truth is a matter of the imagination.