Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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Obviously any band, any group, someday is not going to be together anymore. That's the truth.
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The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.
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During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.
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When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
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Competition is good and has served us well.
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I work on a TV show I love, I have the opportunity to do movies with actors I respect, and I’m in love with the man I want to spend the rest of my life with, who pushes me and excites me...There’s this fighter in me that kind of needs to be put to rest a little bit. I don’t need to be so tough to protect myself.
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Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.
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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.
