Lie Quotes
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Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through,
Though I am damned for it we two will lie
And burn, here where the starlings fly
Charlotte Mew
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
George Eliot
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Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.
Vaclav Havel
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A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I see before me the gladiator lie.
Lord Byron
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The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.
Lao Tzu
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Nobody told me you were cheating, it's just a feeling I had. So if I'm right, you got to lie to me, then I won't feel so bad.
Brook Benton
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Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.
James Hall
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I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.
Charles Dickens
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Man is bound to lie about himself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Above all, do not lie to yourself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
