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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction.

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It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

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What is meant by 'reality'? It would seem something very erratic, very undependable-now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in th...more

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No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.

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By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

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It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

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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,...more