Lie Quotes
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It isn't the initial cost of a lie, it is the upkeep which counts so terribly.
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The lie that started it all.
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Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts.
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Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.
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To own beauty is the first lie of it.
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If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
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A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.
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...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.
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You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.
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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
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A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.
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It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie.
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When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.
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Everybody's trusting in the heart like the heart don't lie...
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.
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Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
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Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.
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“I lie, I forge I blackmail.” Edward shrugged. “But cheating at cards? I'd never stoop so low.” Good to know you have some principles.
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And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.
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If we don't have that, what do we have to live for? Does it matter if it's a lie if it keeps us alive?
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You’ll lie again, you’ll do it again. Friends, not friends, friends, not friends, I’m on your dime, I’m on your time, and I don’t exist where there is a YOU.
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Surveys show that surveys never lie.
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I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
